{"id":2414,"date":"2012-07-18T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2012-07-14T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T15:08:16","slug":"deer-park-martins-haven-pembrokeshire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/?p=2414","title":{"rendered":"Deer Park, Martin&#8217;s Haven, Pembrokeshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2403\" title=\"Sunset from Deer Park, Martin's Haven, Pembrokeshire\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Deer-Park20120624_NCD9263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Deer-Park20120624_NCD9263.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Deer-Park20120624_NCD9263-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Deer-Park20120624_NCD9263-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With a break of a day between my few days of tuition and my own planned visit to Skokholm Island, I had the chance to take a few images for myself. The winds were quite high, which affects the sailing to both Skomer and Skokholm, so after a day packing, cleaning and generally getting my gear packed for the trip to Skokholm, I set off?to Deer Park, the headland above Martin&#8217;s Haven, where the boat to Skomer and Skokholm departs from. I wanted to check out the swell and general wave conditions of the sea. My departure time to the island had been put back by 8 hours already and I was concerned that I wouldn&#8217;t get out the next day.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2400\" title=\"Sheltering fuel Tankers from Deer Park, Martin's Haven, Pembrokeshire\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Deer-Park20120624_NCD9075.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Deer-Park20120624_NCD9075.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Deer-Park20120624_NCD9075-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Deer-Park20120624_NCD9075-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It can be a bit fustrating at times when the weather generally looks okay, but the sea conditions are too difficult to get a safe transfer to and from the island. Matin&#8217;s Haven is very sheltered and the sea nearly always looks calm. It is a different story on Skomer and especially Skokholm. I have found myself a few times in the past standing on the cliff top at?Deer Park,?looking out to sea and thinking that the weather is great and the sea doesn&#8217;t look that rough. A good indication of the sea conditions is looking at how many Tankers are moored up sheltering from the sea and wind conditions. Only a few and it isn&#8217;t that bad, more and it&#8217;s going to get rough! There were quite a few this time, so it looked likely that my departure was going to be delayed.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2401\" title=\"Sea swell from Deer Park, Martin's Haven, Pembrokeshire\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Deer-Park20120624_NCD9194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Deer-Park20120624_NCD9194.jpg 399w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Deer-Park20120624_NCD9194-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Deer-Park20120624_NCD9194-266x400.jpg 266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The sea doesn&#8217;t look that bad in the photo above, but the swell was about a few metres!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a break of a day between my few days of tuition and my own planned visit to Skokholm Island, I had the chance to take a few images for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}