Dragnet

(backblipping) day 2 in the Gower.

We had that thin Welsh rain that never reaches the floor and doesn't quite know if it's really rain or just fog pretending to be rain.

We had a good walk on Rhossili beach slightly spoiled by what seemed like pollution of a unpleasant kind but on investigation is, the Envionment Agency assures us, just an algae bloom due to the recent hot weather and excess of nutrient in the water. Shame the algae is brown and gloopy and looks like unmentionables all over this blue flag (the clean bathing water award) beach.

Also somewhat saddened by a dead seal and this monofilament net that was stuffed with dead fish and sea birds and crabs and all kinds of other bottom dwelling creatures. I'm guessing it had been rolling around on the bottow of the sea for a while picking up creatures as it dragged along, until it washed up with it's grizzly haul.

That's the famous headland called Worms Head in the background - a Worm is the old word of dragon and it's well named as it snakes out from the land like some ancient sea monster.