Flotsam & wind-blown sand at Rhossili

All sorts of flotsam washes ashore at Rhossili Bay – some from thousands of miles away. Here are a few of the things that were found one sunny autumn day when the biting wind whipped the sand across the shore in fast moving low drifts. This selection includes a solid cylinder of bright green melted fishing nets shaped like the oil drum they were burnt in; a piece of driftwood from the ancient submerged forest in the Bristol Channel; a tattered old blue and black lobster pot; metres and metres of white polythene sheeting; green, orange, blue and yellow fishing nets and ropes in a heap; and a vivid pink and black ship’s buoy.