Field Trip!

As part of this orientation course, we're being taken on three field trips. The first one was last Friday to the Gower peninsula, which is pretty close to campus. So, an hour bus ride will take me back here, to this lovely place:

It's been beautiful every day I've been here. Even this morning we had a bit of "Welsh Mist" (that is, very light rain) but it's cleared up already.

On the bus over, Angela, the coordinator, told a few stories about students who had been blown off the edge of the cliff and stuck there for hours. Along this coast, you see, there is one rescue helicopter which covers Scotland and Wales. She was obviously attempting to impress upon us the importance of caution.

With that in mind, what do you think I did when faced with this slope?


Yes, I did climb down it immediately after Angela stopped paying attention to me. It was excellent. Actually, there are a few places where it's pretty easy to climb- more of a steep hill than a cliff. There were a handful of people down there already, mostly fishing off the rocks. One group of fishermen attracted a guest who swam hopefully near them.






Adorable. I'm the only one in our group who got to see him because I didn't follow the crowd and just mill about.

Of course, while on my own I also discovered a patch of stinging nettle, which was much less fun. And later on Mike from my group and I went down to the beach to look for sea life in tidal pools. There wasn't much, and we were late getting back to the bus, but it was fun enough to be worth it. Nobody seemed to mind too much anyway.



Well, I have to get ready for class, so I'll be seeing you.