Skomer part 2

Who knew I would have less time now I have finished work?

I didn't want to be outdone by my wife and not post anything about our Skomer camping trip so finally finished culling my photos.

Pembrokeshire is a really beautiful part of the world and I wish that I had visited before when I lived just down the motorway in Newport.

I had way too many images so I have tried a slideshow to show them, let me know what you think.

Enjoy.

Skomer, puffins and a burnt nose from Matt Prentice on Vimeo.

Happy Campers

As this blog is titled ‘Matt and Aimee’ I thought I had better show my face and make my first entry. So I have decided to break my blogging world cherry with a post about our camping adventure last weekend!

Our lovely tent!

It was secretly fun putting the tent up in the dark, slightly delirious from a 5 hour journey while other campers looked on bemused at ‘The English’. Our little pods were amazing- keeping us nice and warm and the creepy crawlies away.

Queuing up for the boat to Skomer at Martin’s Haven.

The boat trip to the Island on board the Dale Princess was reminiscent of the scene in Jurassic Park when they see the Island for the first time, only instead of Pteranodons there were puffins.

Speaking of puffins... theres some now!

The intrepid adventurers- clearly loving it!

Everybody loves a fact about a Puffin so I decided to break up the lovely pictures of the charming puffins with some fun facts! See, learning is fun….

Puffins are sometimes referred to as ‘Clowns of the Ocean’ due to their clown-like behaviour and little stubby wings which flap very fast and hard in order for them to get anywhere.

A baby puffin is rather cutely named a puffling!

Puffins rate amongst Becky Mitchell’s top three animals of all time alongside such greats as the giant turtle and the domestic dog.

During courtship, puffins rub their beaks together to make a sweet puffin-kiss.

On board the 'Dale Princess'

We seem to have acquired an old man in our group.

The O'Connors!

But our trip wasn’t all puffins and camping there was also a poignant side to it. On Sunday we visited the beautiful Freshwater West beach, the location of Dobby’s final resting place in Deathly Hallows Part 1 (although in the book Shell Cottage is located on the outskirts of Tinworth, Cornwall- maybe this could be our next trip?).

And so I end this post with the immortal words of a true hero.

‘Such a beautiful place it is, to be with friends’.