The coastline of South Wales is dramatic and often overlooked by visitors to the area although it is very much used by the locals.
When developing the coastal business, An Intertidal Thing, we wanted to be able to offer coasteering along with a range of other beach activities, in part to move away from the predominance of bookings for gorge walking and also to be able to offer a truly sustainable activity day that had NO environmental impact.
We use several locations, Mumbles and the Gower, near Swansea, Ogmore to Southerndown, near Bridgend, and Swansea Bay (part sub-contracted provision).
Across these three locations we can offer abseiling and climbing, cave exploration, beach games, power kites and mountain boards, body boarding, coasteering, rock hopping, canoeing, windsurfing and beach volleyball.
Intertidal events are notoriously fickle, difficult to guarantee provision due to the unknown swell, wind, and wave conditions. We have overcome the problems associated with beach days by taking a wide range of activities to the location which compliment each other. If coasteering is not available because of the swell then it is likely that the sea will be in condition for body boarding, if there is wind for the kites but now waves then we kite instead of body boarding. In this way we guarantee that the day will be a success.
This unique approach to activity provision can only be found at An Intertidal Thing. There is no other provider that comes close to our well thought out and professionally delivered beach sessions.
The classic day for us is along the spectacular VERY TIDAL limestone cliffs that fall into the sea between Ogmore and Southerndown and it is this that we encourage clients to go for. The full day is described here and you can read this by clicking on continue reading....
THE OGMORE DAY
This is a great multi activity beach day. We bring along kit for five activities and guarantee to be able to offer three. We choose the activities on the day based on the swell, wind and surf.
We can take part in abseiling, basic cave exploration, coasteering (this is a great location given the right sea conditions), power kites and mountain boards and body boarding. The mix of activities is about right, too wild for coasteering the body boarding works well, no wind the coasteering should be good... We can always do the caveing and abseiling.
On a warm sunny flat calm day we can sometimes, given the right group, get through all of the activities.
Ogmore car park has a couple of burger vans and public loos, unheard of at most adventure activity venues, and there is a great pizza restaurant close by for that special after activity meal.
This is my favourite activity day to work on. Rising and falling with a gentle swell in some tiny inlets, jumping into the sea from a cliff top, the dramatic cliff scenery, the wide golden beaches perfect for kites and mountain boards and often some perfect waves for body boarding....
Roll on the summer!
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