Build it, they will come! (Abereiddi)

Spent the afternoon in St Davids and Abereiddi today. There was an exhibition of artists from Turner to Sutherland in the visitors centre (where I was stung £1.10 for a can of diet coke).

Graham Sutherland is a bit of a Marmite artist and I'm in the "some I love a lot, but only some" camp. What was weird in a goosebumps sort of way was a framed collection of his polaroids from 1967 which contained some images of sand and shorelines that looked uncannily like the shots I took yesterday in Llansteffan. I was quite taken aback at the coincidence as I didn't know he actually took photographs meant for display.

Abereiddi has an industrial past. Today it was packed with holiday makers from around the globe just using the beach and walking in the countryside, but in the past an active quarry was situated here. When part of the quarry wall collapsed allowing seawater to flood in, the Blue Lagoon was formed, the colour partially coming from mineral deposits in the surrounding stone. The buildings are nothing but ruins now but fit in the landscape in a way which is just right somehow. The photo is a marsh with reed beds which is situated in the valley behind the (free) beach car park.

All this wonderful outdoors came for free, go and see it.