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 Rhossili Bay, Gower Peninsula Coastline
Stretching 15 miles south west of Swansea, the Gower Peninsula is widely held as encapsulating the finest aspects of the Welsh landscape.
With windswept uplands where wild ponies roam on the moors, serene farmland and time capsuled rural cottages that make up the interior, to famously rugged, scenic coastal features and secluded bays of golden sandy beaches. The Gower attracts ramblers along the rugged cliff top paths, families to its safe, clean beaches and surfers to its crashing waves.
 Surfing at Llangennith, Gower image from SwanseaBay
There are over 70 beaches, coves and bays along the 34 miles of Gower coastline. The best of these are Rhossili and Three Cliffs Bay and both have spectacularly picturesque outcrops of coastline.
Rhossili Bay is in the far west of Gower, a smooth curvature of beach over looked by breckon swept hills. At low tide you can see the bone like wreck of the Helvetica sunk in 1887. Rhossili is popular with surfers riding the breaking waves with the tidal outcrop of Worms Head in the background. This serpentine looking rocky headland is accessible for a two-hour period either side of low tide but if you’re late getting back you’ve a lonely cold night ahead of you! Three Cliffs Bay is named after the three outcrops jutting out from the bay and stretches for two miles to the caves around the Penmaen Burrows. These are rich in archaeological significance.
Two ruined castles can also be found on the Gower Peninsula, Weobley Castle a 14th Century fortified manor house perched overlooking the atmospheric salt marshes of the Llanrhidian Sands and Oxwich Castle, a 16th Century Tudor manor house overlooking the southern tip of Oxwich Point.
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