7. Gower AONB.

http://www.the-gower.com/beaches/whitfordsands/whitefordsands.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southwest/nature/thingstodo/walks/pages/oxwich1.shtml

Leader: Jonathan Mullard

Jonathan is the author of the New Naturalist volume on Gower.

Itinerary - To be confirmed.
Gower is designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. It is envisaged that site visits will be made to Whitford Point, to view the salt marsh and sand dunes, including the RSPB reserve, and to Oxwich Bay. Oxwich is famed for its grassland, rivers and sand dunes.

Websites to give you some background to this excursion include:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southwest/nature/lookandlisten/panoramics

http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/template.cfm?name=Gower1test

http://www.the-gower.com/beaches/whitfordsands/whitefordsands.htm

Exertion levels will be mild to moderate and appropriate footwear should be worn.