Rock And a Hard Place

Climate breakdown will cost huge sums of money, dealing with extremes of weather and the encroacment of the sea onto formerly dry land. In places this is dramatic: floods, wildfires, tornadoes, droughts, heatwaves and so on. But it will also be a miriad of small-scale accommodations, each one with their cost. We ate lunch in a cafe besite a road that must be moved. The relentless rise of the sea means that a section of the main road from Haverfordwest to St David's can no longer be defended. The complex landscape means that the alternative is long, disruptive, expensive and contentious. As the prime minister who used Britain's oil wealth to fund tax cuts used to say, there is no alternative

We went out in search of rocks, and became mesmerised by them, passing more than an hour looking deeper and deeper into variations of colour, texture and pattern; the interactions between rock and water, rock and plants or animals, rock and light

Like hunters, we were pursuing a particular conglomerate that only appears on a narrow section of the coast. We found it, and even sat on an outcrop for a snack, victorious over the quarry (!) 

But, in the end, the distractions of the chase were as enjoyable as the ultimate success. I took a host of pictures, many of which I'd normally be happy to blip. In the end I've picked the most abstract, representing our slightly altered consiousness as we became overwhelmed by beauty of the ancient stone