Grid reference SM7509
4 km WNW of Marloes, Pembrokeshire/Sir Benfro, Wales
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View to Wooltack Point
View to Wooltack Point from the Coast Guard Lookout Station. Middle Isle and Skomer Island can be seen in the distance.
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Rock headland off Wooltack Point, Skomer Island on horizon
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Looking east from Wooltack Point, 1953
The nearest headland is Haven Point, with the coastguard lookout just to the right of my mother.
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Wooltack Point
Looking down towards Wooltack Point from the coastguard lookout station; the shape of the headland is vaguely reminiscent of a hippo in the water.
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Wooltack Point and Tusker Rock
Looking towards Skomer Island, with Garland Stone about 3.5 kilometres away in line with Tusker Rock.
This visit in 2007 had poignant memories for me, as five years earlier I had scattered my aunt's ashes at the tip of Wooltack Point.... (more)
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Natural Arch by Jeffry's Haven
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Atlantic grey seals use this beach for calving
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Lookout Station
Coastguard lookout station.
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Pony near Wooltack Point, on a midsummer's evening
This pony had been grazing much lower down, and when it decided to head up the slope I had just a few seconds to catch this silhouette against the evening sky. Shot taken at 21.08, a few days after midsummer.
I am posting this shot... (more)
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Rivet benchmark on living rock, Mouse's Haven, Wooltack Point
A beautiful Ordnance Survey brass rivet on a lichen-covered rock on Wooltack Point peninsula in Pembrokeshire. For description on database, see Link.
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View over Wooltack Point to Skomer
Note the mist surrounding the base of Skomer!
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Wooltack Point Lookout Station viewed from the west
Situated in Deer Park on the Marloes Peninsula.
Operated by the National Coastwatch Institution (NCI) which is a voluntary organisation that keeps a visual watch along UK shores.
In June 2015 it was temporarily closed pending a... (more)
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