Light Pollution

One of the cool things about staying away in the sticks, is that the amount of light pollution on a night is reduced to nil.

This makes great sky watching conditions and assuming there's no cloud as there was last night; it's quite breath taking to see the zillions of stars and the ribbon of celestial light that is the "Milky Way" stretching across the night sky. It really is something to behold and a sight that very few of us in urbanised Britain actually get to see these days.

[The image above isn't what I could see last night (my photography skills aren't up to it) instead it's a 'milky way image' I've 'borrowed' off the web to illustrate the concept for you urbanites and city dwellers reading this post who perhaps think the night sky has a permanent orange glow to it]

Getting the Wind Up

Having done a spot of star gazing in a cloudless sky before bed last night, we were woken up at 2am by howling winds battering our van and awning to buggery again last night.

The noise and imminent fear of the awning being ripped from its pegs and being blown out to sea was once again with us. The conditions, once again left us with a broken-night's sleep.

A quick inspection of our unit this morning showed no signs of damage or loss (a testament to our pegging skills and the 'storm strap' added earlier in the week).

As the morning progressed the winds died down and the sun came out but as I write this post over a few tinnies, conditions are still blustery.

Still, if the weather stopped us, we Brits would never do anything.

Tomorrow we pack-up and move up the coast to the Cardigan Bay CCC site.

See you then.

Time for a trip to the beach me thinks!