Carew Castle, taken with my new phone a OnePlus 13
The castle stands on a limestone bluff overlooking the Carew inlet, part of the tidal estuary that makes up the Milford Haven Waterway. The site must have been recognised as strategically useful from the earliest times, and recent excavations in the outer ward have discovered multiple defensive walls of an Iron Age fort.
The Norman castle has its origins in a stone keep built by Gerald de Windsor around the year 1100. Gerald was made castellan of Pembroke Castle by Arnulf of Montgomery in the first Norman invasion of Pembrokeshire. He married Nest, princess of Deheubarth around 1095. Nest brought the manor of Carew as part of her dowry, and Gerald cleared the existing fort to build his own castle on Norman lines. The original outer walls were timber, and only the keep was of stone. This still exists in the later structure as the "Old Tower".
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Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, herbaceous perennial plants native to Mexico and Central America.
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Taken on a recent trip to Aberglasney gardens.
Aberglasney House and Gardens is a medieval house and gardens set in the Tywi valley in the parish of Llangathen, Carmarthenshire, West Wales. It is owned and run by Aberglasney Restoration Trust
Canon's EF135mm f/2L USM is very old, but still one of the very best. Especially when used wide open at f/2
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A view from the dunes next to Newport Sands golf course. An 18 hole championship Links Golf Course
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