Day 6 Monday April 7th Oxwich beach

Our beach base camp

Another wonderful day for us to enjoy.  The sun was shining and there was some wind and we decided to visit Oxwich beach which is a little further along the Gower in an easterly direction.  It did not take long before we had parked our cars (right at the top of the beach) and carried all the necessaries to what we thought was the best sheltered position.  

We settled in and it was soon decided a major project for the day would be to build a proper sandcastle.  

Ian helping construction

Grandpa Ian was the main instigator and chief builder and it was soon well underway with help from smaller assistants.  The tide was out at this stage but was coming 

Joshua on the top as sea encroaches

in and so eventually the tide would overcome it.  To keep it in place as long as possible a series of moats, dams and channels were included.  This took some time and so a coffee break also took place.  Us bystanders were amazed at construction going on!  The tide was by now lapping

Abigail on the castle

 

the swan enjoying our company

around the base and both Joshua and Abigail had a sit on the top of what was now rapidly becoming an island.  The engulfing happened and soon all that tremendous work turned back to flat sand!

We had a picnic which Ruth had kindly prepared for us and rested on the beach for some time.  There was a swan enjoying our company in the sea several yards offshore 

the little church

from us - a bit unusual.  There

inside the church

 was a church a little further round the bay and some of went for a walk to it.  It was very characterful, still in use weekly and we were pleased to see inside and out.  It reminded us of Old Town church.  There was a beach football game as well going on and some little ones were resting after the exertions of castle building.

As it began to cool we retreated from the beach and went to the self catering accommodation.  Alexander and Keren had prepared a good spaghetti bolognese meal for all of us which went down well.  Some of the children had a very good time 

the Happy Retirement couple

with it.  After the meal Ian and Ruth's children had organised a Happy Retirement cake which we all had a slice of and sang to them.  Very much deserved!  The dishwasher was loaded, everything else sorted out, a cup of coffee consumed and then it was time for us to retire to our hotel.  A very enjoyable day again.