It was the first day of the Easter holidays, the weather was due to be beautiful so we got up early to head to the Gower Peninsular for the day. It was about 2.5 hours from our house.

Worm’s Head

We arrived at about 11.30am and our first stop was Worm’s Head, by Rhosili. We parked up in the National Trust car park and followed the track to the headland. It isn’t a very long walk but there are beautiful views of Worm’s Head and also of Rhosili beach.

^{The track to Worm’s Head with Rhosili beach under the cliffs in the background}

It didn’t take long to reach the tip of the headland where there was a sign giving us the crossing times to the island. Although we have visited a few times we had never tried to cross and today the sign said we had a good 4 hours before the tide would come in so we decided to wander over.

We walked down the path to the beach which we needed to cross. As the tide had just gone out there were loads of rock pools for the kids to explore.

We made it across to the island but there was a large hill to climb and as we had other places we wanted to visit we turned back but had a play by the sea.

^{Looking back towards the headland}

There was also a coast guard hut back on the headland which we visited as there were binoculars which we were allowed to look through which Tom and Izzy enjoyed.

Three Cliffs Bay

Our next stop was Three Cliffs Bay – about 30 minutes from Worms Head but on our route home. There is a camp site at Three Cliffs and we were able to pay to park in its field. It was such a beautiful afternoon that we looked at all the tents and decided that it would have been lovely to be camping and that we were going to buy ourselves a tent!

We followed a steep path down from the camp site to the beach. It is the only way to access the beach – it is not possible to drive down to it. Before you reach the sand you need to cross a river which has stepping stones to get you across.

^{Accessing the beach}

There was then another channel of water we needed to cross where we just had to take our shoes and socks off to wade over! We played on the beach for a bit, paddled in the water and explored some of the caves before heading back to the car.

The following day we went to Go Outdoors and purchased a tent!