Landscape and Wildlife Activities in West Wales

Dolphin Spotting Boat Trips New Quay

For nearly 70 years, Dolphin Spotting Boat Trips have offered fun and educational guided tours from New Quay. Operating within the Cardigan Bay Special Area of Conservation, the trips provide a chance to see bottlenose dolphins and Atlantic grey seals. With 1, 1.5, and 2-hour trips led by WISE-qualified skippers, you’ll learn about the dolphins and other marine life in the area. The new boat, Suncatcher, offers 360-degree views, an...

Teifi River Guides

Flowing for more than seventy miles from its source in the Cambrian Mountains to its estuary at Cardigan, the Teifi, Queen of the Game Fishing Rivers, is both wild and beautiful. Shallow runs, thundering waterfalls and lazy dark pools give the angler both variety and scenery few other rivers can match. In addition, the River Teifi is one of the top producing rivers for Salmon and Seatrout in the U.K....

Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre

The Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre is dedicated to conserving Cardigan Bay’s marine wildlife through education and research. Based in a heritage building in the heart of New Quay, overlooking the beautiful beach and harbour, the centre has become the focus for marine research in the area. We operate a popular visitor centre and work in conjunction with Dolphin Survey Boat Trips to collect data on the bottlenose dolphins of...

New Quay Beach

New Quay is a pretty seaside village with terraced streets sloping down to its three beaches; Harbour Beach, Traeth Gwyn and Dolau. Harbour beach is the main safe beach for swimming and it is patrolled by lifeguards during the summer months. Dolau is a smaller sheltered beach east of the pier and Traeth Gwyn is a long stretch of golden sand between New Quay and Cei Bach. The sheltered harbour...

Teifi Valley

The River Teifi, which flows along the borders of Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, is 75 miles long and runs from the mysterious Teifi Pools (Llyn Teifi) in the Cambrian Mountains down to the sea at Cardigan. The steeply wooded valleys of tributaries like the Ceri and the Cych are supposedly where a magical waterfall hides the entrance to the underworld of the Mabinogion. There is plenty to keep the visitor occupied:...

Gigrin Farm Red Kite Feeding Centre

Wild Red Kites are fed at Gigrin Farm, Rhayader, every day of the year. The number of kites visiting the feeding station can exceed 600, depending on weather and time of year. Bad weather attracts greater numbers of birds. You can witness fantastic feats of aerial piracy as red kites compete with buzzards and ravens for choice pickings. There are five large hides for viewing kite feeding, three being suitable...

Cardigan Island Farm Park

Cardigan Island Coastal Farm Park is a wonderful natural tourist attraction with superb panoramic views over Cardigan Island, the estuary of the River Teifi, the Pembrokeshire National Park, Poppit Sands and Cardigan Bay. Atlantic Grey Seals inhabit the many caves below the farm park and can be seen every day at close quarters from the safely fenced cliffs, as can Cardigan Bay’s Bottlenose Dolphins. The seal-viewing headland is only a...

St Govan's Chapel

The tiny 13th-century St Govan’s Chapel is perched on the cliff at St Govan’s Head, the most southerly point on the Pembrokeshire coast. A tiny cell measuring 18 by 12 feet, dating from the thirteenth century, but parts of it – the altar and a seat cut in the rock – may be much earlier. The saint reputedly established a hermitage here after escaping pursuit by pirates. Inside is the...

Gwili Steam Railway

Explore the charm of steam travel at the Gwili Steam Railway whether it evokes a nostalgic smile or captures the fascination of young children, the sight and sound of a coal-fired steam engine never fail to captivate. Located just outside Carmarthen town, this heritage steam railway offers a 5-mile journey (round trip) alongside the scenic Gwili River. Immerse yourself in a bygone era, where life moved at a gentler pace...

Cardigan Walks

Cardigan Walks offers family-friendly tours of beautiful Cardigan town, sharing the tales of the lives and times echoed around town. Book today to discover some great history! This part of West Wales is full of history – historical evidence shows that people have lived here for up to 6,000 years! Cardigan Town took shape, as we may begin to recognise it, in the late 11th or early 12th century when...