Perfect, just-perfect.

[noody]

I think I must be anti-social, I just love camping like this.


By the time we get to taking this photo I'm 9/10th's down a bottle of Carmenere (after a beer) and just fluffed my pillows. My little dog is already snoring.

 

[chigman]

I must be anti social as well then, cos that's just how I like them too.

Lovely photo's-especially the sunset.

steve

 

[noody]

Lovely photo's-especially the sunset.

steve

Thanks Steve, I'm no-photographer. Sometimes they're awful. This site is on the Ceridigion coast just above New Quay, you can walk down to the sea but its 45 degrees and you need crampons on the way-back.

 

[noody]

I parked the van as close as I dare to the down-ward slope, so-much-so that in the early hours I woke-up after considering the consequences of not applying the brakes and leaving the van in gear. If you just leave the hand-brake on sometimes the pads cool and release their grip of the disks.

Horrific thought, look.

 

[Deleted member 919]

Thanks Steve, I'm no-photographer. Sometimes they're awful. This site is on the Ceridigion coast just above New Quay, you can walk down to the sea but its 45 degrees and you need crampons on the way-back.

Stayed there a couple of years ago Richard the views were awesome( didnt see the dolphins though)
Rob

 

[Jacques le foot]

Hi Noody,
love your photos, and this is exactly the type of camping we love to do as well. Was this an official site, or a wild camping spot?
I will try to upload some of the places we've found ourselves in..need to get them off my old laptop.
Kind regards,
Jackkie

 

[noody]

Its a Caravan-Club CL Jackkie, they have water and a cess-pit though I didn't find the 'pit'. If you are 'up' for scaling the headland slope and appreciate nature its worth the effort. First time I ever saw blue-bells right on the coast, there is a coast path down there though by the time you get to it you need to consider the tough climb back-up.

Lots of sheep's-poo means you need to be careful where you tread because that-stuff sticks and stains, my dog eats the sheep-poos then spends her time evacuating-continually.

Very-nice site if you have the need to get-together with yourself, I was on a dreadful-downer because I'm trying to kick painkilling drugs and deal with the reasons for taking them. Just two nights and days of all that 'lovely' dealt the death-blow to my self-pity.

Go-on, get-some.

Thanks for kind-words about my photo's Jackkie. More by luck than judgement I would say.

Richard.

 

[Channa]

I dont see anything antisocial at all noody....It looks bliss.

I am a bit of a people watcher and it never ceases to amaze how many times I find a quiet spot only for someone to display their herding instinct and come and park adjacent.

Channa

 

[noody]

Let me explain.

For some reason that is possibly hereditory I have always enjoyed open-spaces and solitude. As a young-man I endured a council housing estate where you had to guard the shirt on your back and put-up with your neighbors choice of music.

As a young-working family man things improved a little and then as an aging parent I lived in middle-class detached suburbia but still had to put-up with someone else's taste in music.

Eventually, Nirvana.

Nine years ago myself and my partner bought this barn-conversion on what was once a working farm, we're in a peaceful valley surrounded by hills, sheep and cattle. There is no traffic noise and our two neighbors love this place for the same reasons though I've had to suffer criticm from visitors and family who consider, yes, its lovely, but how can you live so isolated.

The noisiest days are when farm machinery access the fields down our lane, our access lane is a dead-end and a private road, cattle and sheep are occasionally moved along the lane.

If we need an emergency ambulance or a doctor we are likely to have to cope until they find us and it happened twice, its 10 to 15 minutes drive for the shopping and a hard-act to follow if we are looking to go camping.

Yes, Its been suggested I'm anti-social because I live alone 5 days a week though having that space around me is proving to be an excellent way to conduct a relationship for both of us who are, second-time-around.

I've stayed on a few lovely club sites and mostly people are respectful of each others needs though like dog-owners its always the few who spoil it for many.

Finally, after almost ten years of peace I've become very sensitive to the close proximity of lots of people, even a supermarket is a place to get-in and out of as quick as possible.

My sense of smell has changed, all towns and of-course cities stink, it stinks around here but of sheep, cattle, grass and the sea. We have the sea around us on three sides.

How am I doing ? You get the picture ? Understand ?


Today I'm waiting for the rain to stop, then me and my dog are off to the beach to play ball, thats a ten minute drive.

Richard.

 

[Yogihughes]

I envy you your location Richard.
ENJOY!!!!!

 

[Pioneer]

Hi noody,
great pics and what looks to be agreat site. We have planned on New Quay for the week after this bank holiday.

Happy Camping

 

[noody]

We have planned on New Quay for the week after this bank holiday.

Happy Camping

Have you been before ? New Quay has a lot of narrow lanes and a lot of Holiday-Parks, the whole-thing scared me and I bolted. Then found this site.

Further down the coast if you go to Poppit Sands there are some wilding possibilities just past the car-park, there is also a site for on what looks to be on the other-side (North-side) of the estuary though I didn't check it out.

As you get further away from the 'honey-pots' things get a little quieter.

Newport Beach has a large car-park, I saw vans staying-over for a few years now. There is a camp-site on the other side (Parrog) of the estuary. Generally and comparitively, Newport beach is very quiet though the roads are very narrow through Newport and down to the Parrog.

Richard.

 

[kangooroo]

Richard - it sounds like total bliss to me and you're very lucky to live where you do!

 

[noody]

you're very lucky to live where you do!

Most every day that goes-by I remind myself how lucky I am and what did I do to deserve this, the bizarre thing is, my living here came-about as a result of the biggest trauma in my life.

I'm not rubbing this in, I'm just, 'sharing the love'. Just had Geese doing a fly-past, they are nesting about 200 metres from the Barn and another pair about half a mile away. When I take my dog down to valley bottom for a swim she doesn't seem to bother the Geese that are nesting yet she'll flush them out of the long-grass where they feed, it must be because she's a Spaniel. She can tell there are six Pheasants in the long-grass yet she can't see them but she'll bounce-around until they are all up.

She does swim after the geese if they are in the water but she gets knackered and they don't even bother.

Right, thats enough sanding and scraping for today, we're off to the beach.

Richard.

 

[The Cumbrian]

Sounds just like a little piece of heaven.

Not many of them left.

 

[noody]

I'm going to share, post some more photo's but I can't do it now. We have a very slow internet connection. Overhead cable snaking over the country-side, during the winter we often loose power and phone cables get damaged from high winds. Its called, 'vortex-shedding'. The overhead cable starts to resonate then resonates itself to destruction.

Another great benefit, not counting for farm machinery on occasions, cows farting and sheep moaning you can go to bed and sleep any time of day without being disturbed. Oh, I forgot the postman, he makes a racket but he brings my dog back, picks-up my mail and always opened the door to shout, "You Ok" after I had my hip re-surfacing last year.

 

[Deleted member 4850]

I parked the van as close as I dare to the down-ward slope, so-much-so that in the early hours I woke-up after considering the consequences of not applying the brakes and leaving the van in gear. If you just leave the hand-brake on sometimes the pads cool and release their grip of the disks.

Horrific thought, look.

Gee - I know that one! Once stayed on a site near Portpatrick on the Mull of Galloway...gorgeous site, slope overlooking sea. Woke in the early hours to feel a lurch! Never woken up so fast! Big scramble to get into driver's site and hit the brake! Moved it to flatter spot - what a chicken!

I know what you mean about the solitude. I've always wanted to find the remote spots and just soak in the sounds of the sea and the birds. Pembrokeshire is a fabulous place...wonderful to hear about your experiences. Thanks!

 

[noody]

Sorry, I'll get it right in the end.


These sheep are not my sheep.



The main dog walk outside our front door.

 

[noody]

Never woken up so fast! Big scramble to get into driver's site and hit the brake! Moved it to flatter spot -

(Smile) I'll make sure I take my ramps next-time. First time I camped wild was at the little beach at Kyle of Tongue in the far north of Scotland, seemed very peaceful and it was very lovely. We locked-up and turned-in when the 'air-force' came out and were both asleep by 10-ish. Between 11 and 2 in the morning I couldn't believe the number of cars that came ripping past at such a lovely isolated spot.

 

[tresrikay]

We stayed at the Parrog site about 4 years ago, great walking and before that we were on a C.L right on the coast path, a huge farm field and just 4 vans, a short walk away from the boat to Skomer Island which we were lucky enough to take in the first week it had started again (April).
The Skomer Island experience was amazing and as we were out of season, we had it virtually to ourselves.
Love that part of the country but it takes nearly 7 hours to get to it from here.
You are a fellow travelling soul Richard, we share more than a first name.