There’s a moment at Green Sheep Camping when the day finally exhales. The last mugs of tea cool, the hedgerows settle, and the meadow — so busy with bees and butterflies just hours earlier — hands the shift over to an entirely different workforce. Under the stars, Pembrokeshire’s moths take flight. Most people think of […]
At Green Sheep Camping, wildlife is not something that happens “elsewhere”. It is part of the everyday rhythm of the land — overhead, along the hedgerows, and just beyond the field margins. Recently, we set up a wildlife camera to quietly record what passes through and over the site. What it has revealed is a
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The New Inn Stream (after Edward Abbey) The New Inn Stream is not famous. It has never inspired a postcard, a pilgrimage, or a sentimental poem written by someone who drove here in a hybrid and felt absolved by the scenery. It is a ditch with ambitions—a narrow, persistent ribbon of water leaking out of
In this blog we introduce some of the birds that inspired our pitch names and share their Welsh names, along with a few insights into where you might spot them while camping in Pembrokeshire. For visitors interested in wildlife in Pembrokeshire or birdwatching around the Pembrokeshire coast and countryside, these species are some of the
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One of the best things about staying at Green Sheep Camping is how close you are to some of the most beautiful beaches on the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park. Whether you’re looking for wide sandy shores, lively seaside towns, or quiet stretches perfect for exploring, there are several fantastic options nearby. Here are three of
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The New Inn Stream is not a large and iconic waterway. It is a small and rather nondescript stream that starts its life in the emergence of countless springs in corners of fields and hedges, and then gathers the runoff that the Pembrokeshire rain washes from the fields, roads, driveways, and gardens that make up
Three Beautiful Rivers to Discover Near Green Sheep Camping “And the water lidded lands under the sky.” — Dylan Thomas, Poem in October The valleys of West Wales are shaped by water. From quiet woodland streams to wide tidal estuaries, rivers thread their way through ancient landscapes, wildlife-rich valleys and historic towns. For visitors staying
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“People who live at the lower ends of watersheds cannot be isolationists — or not for long. Pretty soon they will notice that water flows, and that will set them to thinking about the people upstream who either do or do not send down their silt and pollutants and garbage. Thinking about the people upstream
Stop scrolling — this is about mud, hedgehogs, and soil the consistency of blancmange. Before English speakers borrowed the Latin name February, this time of year had a far more honest title in the Anglo-Saxon calendar: Solmōnaþ (sohl-mo-nath). In Old English, sol meant mud or mire, and monath simply meant month — the ancestor of
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