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#cymru

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Greenseer (Dionne/Dee) 🩷🐇🏳️‍⚧️

Okay, my final post for this morning of jolting juxtaposition 😘

This is the spot where I paused for my packed lunch on yesterday's walk around the high heather moorlands

At over 500m elevation, amid wide expanses of gently rolling hills covered in rust-brown heathers, beneath blue skies and the bright sun, there are these isolated oases, little copses of gnarled pines to provide shade and shelter

Light and dark

Have a lovely morning dear ones 😘

An open carpet of grasses, woody small plants and dead fallen stumps and branches, within a small grouping of gnarled coniferous trees, lightly shaded beneath the canopy above. Blue skies visible beyond
#photography#Cymru
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Helen Clayton

A fabulous walk today from Aberystwyth to Ynyslas along the Ceredigion coast path. Sunshine and sea mist and the delicious coconut scent of gorse.

I timed my walk for low tide at the end, which exposed some of the prehistoric petrified forest between Borth and Ynyslas, associated with the legendary sunken civilisation of Cantre'r Gwaelod. It was even more mysterious in the sea mist, which rolled in and out like the tide, revealing and hiding features as it did so.

Photo of a petrified tree stump rising up from a sandy beach. The wood grain is clearly visible under a blanket of green filamentous seaweed.
Photo of a petrified tree stump and roots covered in green seaweed on a sandy beach. It is surrounded by pools left by the retreating tide. A marker post stands behind it but the beach and coastline beyond is disappearing into a grey sea mist.
Photo of another stump that looks rather crab like. The mist has lifted momentarily revealing a sliver of blue sea and sky.
Photo of a view back along the misty beach. Dark lumps of the forest are scattered among pools in the sand. A marker post stands guard. There is a glimmer of brightness above the mist and reflected in the water.
#Cymru
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JanPV

I've seen many manganese quarries and mines, but never one quite like this. Repeated piles of stones, apparently spoil heaps but they are quite odd. The narrow vein must have been chased on the surface.

The landscape is almost all sandstone and mudstone, about half a billion years old.

Vertical drone view of the manganese quarry.
A closer drone view of the neatly-piled rock mounds. It's not clear whether these were waste - the blocks are quite large - or destined for later processing that never happened.
An apparent explanation for the quarrying method for manganese in this area. From https://www.nmrs.org.uk/assets/lookinside/bm14lookinside.pdf
#quarries#mines#drone
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