Sea Campion Cliffs — Pembrokeshire

Each May and June, the sea cliffs of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in Wales produce one of Britain's most exuberant coastal wildflower displays as sea campion, thrift, spring squill, and wild thyme cover the cliff-top turf in continuous drifts of white, pink, and blue extending for miles along the coastal path, the flowers' fragrance carried inland on the Atlantic breeze in a display that coincides with the peak of the offshore seabird season. The Pembrokeshire Coast Path — the first designated national trail in Wales — runs directly through the flower-rich cliff grassland, making this arguably Britain's best walking coastal wildflower route, with the flower display visible from the path on both sides simultaneously as the trail traverses narrow cliff-top ridges. The same sea cliffs host breeding puffins on Skomer Island visible just offshore, choughs working the rock faces below for insects, and peregrine falcons nesting on the vertical faces above the flower meadows. The combination of the flower display, the offshore seabird islands, the chough — Wales's national bird — and the Pembrokeshire Coast's consistently spectacular cliff scenery makes this one of Britain's most complete late-spring coastal wildlife walks. The distinctive pink granite of the Pembrokeshire coast, the colour of the soil, and the acid-green of the cliff-top turf create a colour palette unique to this Welsh coastline.