Wind burnt and windswept in Wales 🌬️ Almost got blown clean off Pen y Fan the day before, and on the Gower coast it was deafening, ringing in my ears like tinnitus. Inland, the wind dropped long enough for the wild garlic flowers to emerge and for me to hear folk tales of fairies and giants from a local silversmith 🌞
Ferns so tightly coiled you could turn them into bed springs. Feathery pelts of moss that make you want to scratch a tree behind its ears. Limestone-cold fresh air. And shoots with names like dog wood violet and fiddleheads and wood sorrel and the oh so catchy opposite leaved golden saxifrage?? The temperate rainforest of Puzzle Wood. Go where the green things are 🍃
Instagram's suggested song for this post is What Dreams Are Made Of by Hilary Duff which is fair enough, I'm very much daydreaming of Dahab. The fankoush and four legged creatures at Moray Garden. Humans being humans (@hannahedace ™️) at the Lighthouse. Sea purslane a stranger handed me on our last day when I burst into tears at breakfast. Hilary would love it. 🍊
We arrived in Dahab in the dark so we had no real concept of the landscape until we left, driving through an endless expanse of dusty, lifeless rock. Slip underwater and it becomes a thriving marine environment full of movement and colour. It's part of the reason diving is such a thrill, aside from coming face to face with an octopus and pointing out a species your instructor has never seen before (spiny oyster 🫡) 🫧🐡🐙
Sadly my old Canon doesn't do underwater so here's a few snaps of the time we spent above the surface 🎞️
A smiley dog and some autumnal warmth because I am currently wearing three jumpers and no one bought me a puppy for Christmas (rude) 🍁
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A quick stomp in St Levan and Porthcurno after hurricane Erin shook the hedgerows, blew big swells onto the beaches and coated the blackberries in sea spray back in August. Moby Dick at the magical @minacktheatre and a double rainbow to send me on my way. No pot of gold needed 🌬️ 🌈
Hit hard reset in Fowey back in August, kicking off a week in Cornwall, pottering around with absolutely zero plans except to eat well, sync with the sun and swim every day 🌞
