Bramble bushes get the better of a blackberrier!

Two mature ladies from Salisbury, Wilts were walking on Poppet Sands, Cardigan, during the late afternoon of 6th October, when they became aware of the tide was closing in fast around them cutting off their way back along the beach. The best way off the beach, they thought would be walking up the grassy slope through some brambles and into the wood at the top. This they attempted but they became tangled up in the thick brambles. After some time her companion managed to get free of the brambles and phoned the Coastguard but her companion became more tangled the more she struggled. Penrhyn Coastguard Rescue Team, complete with loppers, hedge cutters and a ladder were called and went to the scene. With deft movements the team used the ladder to get over a barbed wire fence and the loppers to cut their way through to the lady. Once free the uninjured lady was assisted back up to civilisation. On talking to the lady it was established that before Coastguards arrived she had been stuck for some three hours and added that the blackberries weren’t worth the adventure!!

‘Ben’ the Collie rescued from the Beach Lodge Valley, Tenby

‘Ben’, a 13yr old deaf cross breed collie, was walking with his owners on the cliff path at Lodge Valley, Tenby during the afternoon of 6th October when in his doggy mind he saw something worth chasing and ran off straight over the cliff edge and onto the slab scree 60ft cliffs. He slipped and slithered down the rocks ending up on the inaccessible beach below. His distressed owners called the Coastguards and Tenby Coastguard Rescue Team were tasked together with the RNLI Inshore Lifeboat from Tenby. A Lifeboat crew man waded ashore and pacified the friendly dog that had injured his paw in the fall, whilst the Coastguard Crew set up their cliff rescue ropes and went down onto the beach. Once there the dog was attached to the ropes in a way that he could be ‘walked’ back up the cliffs with the assistance of the Coastguard rope man, and in a way not to aggravate the injury to his paw. ‘Ben’ was reunited with his relieved owners, on holiday from Leyland, Lancashire, and taken to a local vet for his paw to be tended to.

New Quay Fishing Boat fouls Propeller in Bay

New Quay RNLI Inshore Lifeboat assisted the crew of the local fishing vessel ‘Blue Pearl’ with 3 persons aboard, in releasing their propeller after it snagged on moorings in New Quay Harbour, during the afternoon of 5th October. New Quay Coastguard Team attended.

Catamaran Runs Aground – Aberdovey

Aberdovey Coastguard Rescue Team and the crew of the RNLI Aberdovey Inshore Lifeboat kept watch over a catamaran with 2 local men aboard after it ran aground on the shore off Aberdovey Bar. The crew were taking the sail down when the vessel hit the sand and threw one in the water. Both crew and boat safe and well, vessel now back on moorings.

‘Jolly Jack’ runs Aground Ynys Las

A trip out for a family of 5, from Kidderminster, in their Rhib ‘Jolly Jack’ ended on a sand bank when their boat ran out of water and went aground off Ynys Las during the afternoon of Saturday 4th October. The Crew of the RNLI Inshore Lifeboat from Aberdovey were called and went to the rhib’s assistance whilst the Coastguard Rescue Teams from Borth and Aberdovey stood by on shore. The family were taken ashore by the lifeboat and during the late evening returned to the sand bank and managed to re-float the vessel.