Pembrokeshire Coastal Path - Solva to St David's

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Saturday 29 July 2023. Day 13 on the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path. Solva to St Davids.

Alltrails app. 2 hours 45 minutes walking. 5.54 miles. 692 feet elevation gain.

Garmin forerunner 25. 3 hours 4 minutes. 6.05 miles. 754 feet elevation gain

Our hosts at Roch Castle gave us a wonderful breakfast send off. Frank's Taxi formerly St David's taxi picked us up and shuttled us back to Solva for our start of today's walk.

The tide was out and the boats resting on their keels, rudder guards and stabilizers on the harbour bottom.

Our walk to St Davids was a short one to the beach at Caerfai. So we walked another mile and a half to St Non's chapel and retreat before heading in to St Davids from the path.

Gary was ahead and walked an additional mile before catching a path back to town. Jo, Chuck and I met Deb as she was walking into town from the hotel Twr-y-Feline to meet Gary at the Cathedral.

Our rooms would not be available until after 4 so we had lunch and visited the Cathedral. It is very impressive. The main floor has a noticeable incline to the altar area.

We got back to the hotel around 3 but still waited until after 4:20 to get to our rooms.

Dinner was elegant dining at 6 at the hotel restaurant Blas.

We took advantage of the large bathroom with hanging space to wash out our walking clothes. They will have tonight and tomorrow to dry.

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Photos

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The entrance to Roch Castle Hotel

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The tide out at Solva

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The sheltered natural harbor made Solva a sea trade port. Besides limekilns ship would sail from here to America. Early iron age forts have been found above the entrance to the harbor

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Jo on our climb up from the harbor

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This fine knit wrap on the signpost with the boats behind resting on the waterless harbor bottom

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The harbor entrance from sea

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A nice bright day along the coast with many groups of Saturday walkers.

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Jo on the path

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The rugged coast looking north

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Down and up this valley

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A herd of ten horses

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Just one of the many beautiful views today

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Ahead

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Behind

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Caerfai beach after just 4 miles walking. Tents and caravans camping on the cliff top ahead

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St Non's retreat. St Non was the mother of St David.

Comments

[John MacIntyre]

Wonderful photos Thanks so much for sharing. Big article in the Sunday NYT about how badly the inventory of subs has shrunken , due to age and poor maintenance and lack of parts, with new subs not coming on line as scheduled due to reduced funding.