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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!
Happy Saint David's Day!

🐑🌷🌱🌻🥒 (nearest I could find to a leek emoji!)

Here are a couple of shots taken inside the Bishop's Palace on St David's Day last year where usually you can enter for free (as well as for other Cadw properties) on the 1st of March.

St David died on March 1st 589 AD. He was born around 500 AD and was the grandson of Ceredig ap Cunedda, king of Ceredigion. He became a renowned preacher, founding monastic settlements and churches in Wales, Brittany and England, perhaps including the abbey at Glastonbury.

He’s said to have made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem where he became an archbishop, and established a strict religious community in what is now St Davids in Pembrokeshire! ☺️

He was famed for his pious austerity, ploughing the fields by hand, avoiding meat and beer and living on leeks and water, as well as his ability to perform miracles!
Once, while preaching at Llandewi Brefi, he caused the ground to rise up beneath his feet so that everyone at the back could hear his sermon.

He is considered a symbol of Welsh resistance against the Norman Conquest and has been the patron saint of Wales since the 12th century.

Cool fact: when the Welsh fought the Saxons they were both wearing similar uniforms and so St David advised the Welsh soldiers to wear leeks on their caps to distinguish themselves - as such the leek has become an important symbol in Wales!

Although it's not going to be quite the same this year we hope that everyone can still enjoy a celebration at home whether it be to cook some cawl, display some daffodils or even go all the way and dress up in Welsh costume! Who remembers being put in a shawl, apron and Welsh hat as a child to go to school on St David's Day?

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#falconboats #stdavidsday #dyddgwyldewi #your_wales #uk_photooftheday #igerspembrokeshire #stdavidscathedral

A beautiful sunset this evening! Do you think this

This is a bit of a strange one! Some more lockdow

Paradise! 😎🌊🦀🐚🐬🚤 A throwback t $Paradise! 😎🌊🦀🐚🐬🚤 A throwback to last summer and an interval walk between trips along the coast path. Here you can get a good view of Ramsey Island and all that makes it beautiful. Ramsey Sound lies in between the Island and mainland and even in this photo, on this gorgeously calm day can you see the variations in colour on the surface. These are actually the numerous currents that run through the Sound, changing speed and directions many times in various sections, creating back tides and eddies as well as vertical columns of moving water (mini whirlpools).... Phoawr! 😱 In the distance you can see the Bitches and Whelps reef stretching into the Sound from the Island and to the right of them the Island's farmhouse, one of the few buildings on Ramsey. In the far background is Carn Llundain, the highest hill on Ramsey at 134 metres. Both Carn Llundain and Carn Ysgubor in the North would have been used as a landmark for seafaring pilgrims on their way to St Davids. This picture only shows a fraction of this magical place and so we can't wait to take you out this summer and show you the whole Island along with the amazing marine and bird life surrounding it! 😉 #falconboats #ramsey #beautiful_world #boattrip #carnllundain #ramseyisland #thesound #pembrokeshire #ilovepembs #your_wales$

Although we normally share footage from above the

Pretty Porthmynawyd 😎🏖🥥🌴 Yep! This i

Look out, look out.... there's a peregrine falcon

We're really looking forward to the warmer days ah

Happy Valentine's Day from Falcon Boats to all the

Ffion is a trained marine mammal medic so yesterda

This was a very lucky moment the other day! This

Oh my gorse, so much colour! 🤩🎨☀🌸🌊

Some beautiful crepuscular rays at a chilly Newgal

What on earth are these?! I went for a little roc

Here is a snap from the inside of the mystical Ogo

In Newgale campsite today were some curlews - or p