Location: Where can I fly my drone in the UK? - Danraven Cliffs - Coastal Scenery in Wales
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Which drone were you using?
DJI Flip
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Superbly crisp image for the price.
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Yeh I’m enjoying it. Too many transitions in this video though I think 
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It just made me realise how tired the images on my 8yo Mavic Pro look these days … 
Nit-picking and it doesn’t really matter much, but that’s not Dunraven Bay, it’s Traeth Bach. Dinraven Bay is the ‘main’ Southerndown beach to the west of this, towards Ogmore. Great spot, though!
Naturists use this beach sometimes, and it is probably best not to film them to avoid conflict! Although from any sort of height they’ll just be pink blobs…
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Hmm, the only reference I can find for Traeth Bach is Anglesey? I can find Traeth Mawr listed here though (which makes sense, given its a huge beach). Looks like it sits within Temple Bay sitting east of Dunraven as you’ve suggested. I’ll blame the Drone Scene pin, but in fairness everyone parks at Dunraven, and Dunraven castle on the hill still overlooks this beach
Didn’t know this. I’m glad I didn’t run into any given the altitude I was filming at! 
Interesting. This is pretty much my local beach and I’ve been photographing with my DSLR and flying various drones for 20yrs and never seen a naturist.
Not that I’m trying to find any 
Plenty of folks fishing mind.
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You do not want to be trimming any body parts 
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It’s not often I nearly spit my coffee out but this was certainly one of them
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'Bout 15 years ago, I was walking Gileston-Southerndown Heritage Coast path with some mates, and we decided, since the tide was receding, to do Cwm Nash-Southerndown along the beach. We ran into a group of about 20 of them on the sandy patch NW of Whitmore Stairs. If you look at the OS 1:25k, they’d probably come down the path marked ‘Valeways Millenium Heritage Trail’, the spot is marked as ‘Traeth Bach’ on that map. If you’ve got the OS app on your phone, just zoom in and it’ll come up.
Traeth Bach just means ‘small beach’, and there are loads of them around the Welsh coast. They were not at all bothered by us, but we had seen them from a few hundred yards off and put our cameras away, which they appreciated!
The cliffs are amazing with the evening sun on them! Not bad for fossils, as well, Triassic marine Ammonites (sounds biblical, ‘and Aaron smote the Ammonites’) and ‘Gryphea’ (devil’s toenails). We used to come down here with buckets when I was an anklebiter, for periwinkles. You put rockpool water in the bucket, then boil 'em alive for 10 minutes* in the metal bucket you collected them in on a driftwood fire, and pick the poor little sods out of their shells with a pin that mummy gives you when you promise to be very careful with it!
I once read somewhere that these little creatures contain the perfect mix of carbs, proteins, trace elements &c to provide a perfect staple diet for humans. Problem is that the effort expended in getting them out of their shell is, marginally, greater than the nutrition you get from eating them. I have no idea if this is true, but it is sort of one of those things that ought to be, and proof that god has a subtle but nasty sense of humour…
*I suspect that they are not alive for much of the 10 minutes, but they are chewy if not cooked for at least that time. Given the propensity of filter-feeders to accumulate harmful-to-humans pollutants, I’d be less keen nowadays, but the water’s not too bad down there!