It’s not easy to get a view of all of Gower. I can go to
several places and see wonderful vistas; from the top of Cefn Bryn, Rhossili
Down looking east; Kilboidy looking west to the Worm, and other spots along the
south coast. They all give an incomplete
picture. There are paper maps of
course, which provide a sense of what it’s like, and there are now Google Maps,
which give fine detail from a photograph from space.
My son Chris recently sent me a quite amazing picture taken
from the International Space Station by a Canadian astronaut who, in his spare
time, took images of the earth, and posted them on Twitter. Clearly taken during a spell of good weather it is magnificent. Apart from
the whole of Gower, it shows the fading vapour trails of planes passing to and
from the US, something most of us have only seen from below. I compare the
image with Google Maps, and both are amazing. I then think of old fashioned OS
maps, which give so much information the others don’t have. All have their
advantages, as does the map of Gower in my head, which I still add to each day.
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