Kilvay Hill, Swansea

In all the time I lived in Swansea I had never been up Kilvay Hill.  Its on the eastern outskirts of the city and the feature that causes the exit road to hug the coast line.

We approached it by parking in Port Tennant and taking one of the many footpaths that seen to go up the hill on the seaward southern side of the hill keeping just below the farmland for most of the way up. 

A dreary view over Swansea with only the Ferris wheel adding any brightness

At the top there is now the inevitable mast compound and an old concrete wind shelter.  The trig point that used to be up here has now gone but we were able to find the old base it used to stand on.

On top of where the trig point used to stand

The previous evening my friend had suggested we go down to Langland Bay for some Laverbread, an old Swansea delicacy made from seaweed.  I was expecting to go to a shop to buy some and was taken aback when we suddenly headed for the beach.  He meant that we were going to collect the laver seaweed from the beach and make our own laverbread.  This involved washing it and then putting it in the bottom of the oven overnight before frying it in bacon fact in the morning and adding oats. 

Washing the laver seaweed before cooking