Wales: Beauty, charm and legends aplenty on the Gower Peninsula

From sweeping landscapes to the evocative myths that surround them, Sarah Rodrigues is bewitched by the beauty of Wales

Langland Bay and its iconic beach huts in the Gower Penninsula.

Even on a grey day, the broad sweep of Oxwich Bay is bewitching, its silvered sand gleaming wetly in pale daylight. It creates an ideal canvas for a photograph: reflective and otherworldly, it summons your ghost self to appear at your feet. In the distance, the three limestone teeth of Three Cliffs Bay beckon you to walk towards them, past salt marshes and sand dunes.

In any light, the formation resembles the sawtoothed back of a dinosaur, its head dipped to drink the salty seawater. Scramble along these precarious ridges, and you might feel you’ve conquered the land beneath your feet — an expanse of water to your left; miles of beach below, and dense woodland to the right.