15 April 2012Last updated at 08:30

In Pictures: Wales' coastal path

Former Environment Minister Jane Davidson is exploring the all-Wales coast path for BBC Radio Wales' Country Focus programme. The halfway stage of her journey begins at St Dogmaels in Pembrokeshire.

At the plinth over looking the Teifi Estuary, she met B&B owners Tosh and Gill Wislocki, who have pointed many of their guests in the right direction.

In Ceredigion, walkers can see the path stretching in to the distance as it hugs the hills and coastline around Cardigan Bay. The route stretches 870 miles (1,400km) from Chepstow to the edge of Chester.

The path takes in the Urdd camp at Llangrannog, Ceredigion, a residential centre for young people to socialise through the medium of the Welsh language.

Jane Davidson met some of the youngsters at the Urdd camp and learnt that their activities included spotting dolphins in the bay.

This section of the path is some of the newest, with about 15 miles being created where none had existed before. Ms Davidson opened a number of sections of the route while in office.

Creating a footpath where none had existed before is no easy task and not without its risks, as this image of a workman in a mechanical digger shows.

Jane Davidson with Owen and Sali Roberts

One of the stories Ms Davidson hears on her journey is told by Owen and Sali Roberts. Sali was a Red Cross commandant when the former military base (left) at Tonfannau, above Tywyn, Gwynedd, was used to house more than 3,000 Ugandan Asian refugees in 1972.

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In Pictures: Wales' coastal path

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