Qualla: Abereiddy https://qualla.com/abereiddy en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/abereiddy-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Abereiddy https://qualla.com/abereiddy Abereiddy: Introduction https://qualla.com/abereiddy/ Photo credit August Schwerdfeger, CC BY 4.0. The water in the lagoon is genuinely blue - a milky, suspended turquoise that has no business existing on the Welsh coast. It is a slate quarry, not a tropical reef. The colour comes from microscopic mineral particles suspended in cold Atlantic water that floods the pit through a man-made breach in the seawall. The slate dust gives the water its strange opacity. The slate cliff above gives the cliff divers their platform. In September 2012 the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series came here for the first time, fourteen of the world's best divers throwing themselves from twenty-seven metres into water that until 1904 had been a working industrial site. The first divers in the Blue Lagoon had been quarrymen who fell.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/abereiddy-wp/gchr-abereiddy-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Abereiddy: How the Lagoon Was Made https://qualla.com/abereiddy/ Photo credit Jason.nlw, CC BY-SA 4.0. Abereiddy was a slate village. Through the nineteenth century, men worked the cliffs here for the same dark, fissile rock that roofed half of Victorian Britain. The Abereiddy quarry was small compared to the giants further north at Porthgain or inland at Penrhyn, but it operated ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/abereiddy-wp/gchr-abereiddy-how-the-lagoon-was-made.mp3 0:06 2 full Abereiddy: The Beach and the Blue Flag https://qualla.com/abereiddy/ Photo credit Lis Burke, CC BY-SA 2.0. The small beach at Abereiddy received the Blue Flag rural beach award in 2005, recognising its water quality and facilities - public toilets, parking, no major facilities beyond the ice cream van that turns up reliably each summer. The beach is shingle and sand, the cliffs Ordovi...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/abereiddy-wp/gchr-abereiddy-the-beach-and-the-blue-flag.mp3 0:06 3 full Abereiddy: 27 Metres https://qualla.com/abereiddy/ Photo credit Cleopatra Browne, CC BY-SA 3.0. In September 2012 the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series came to Abereiddy for its UK debut. The organisers built a 27-metre platform jutting out from the lagoon's slate wall - the equivalent of a nine-storey building. Fourteen of the world's best high divers competed: men jumped...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/abereiddy-wp/gchr-abereiddy-27-metres.mp3 0:06 4 full Abereiddy: The Fossils in the Shale https://qualla.com/abereiddy/ Photo credit BARRIE TRIGG, CC BY-SA 2.0. Geologists know Abereiddy for entirely different reasons. The south side of the bay exposes steeply dipping beds from the Upper Llanvirn epoch of the Ordovician - around 460 million years old - and these shales contain abundant graptolite fossils, particularly Didymograptus murch...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/h/r/abereiddy-wp/gchr-abereiddy-the-fossils-in-the-shale.mp3 0:06 5 full Abereiddy: Filmic Abereiddy https://qualla.com/abereiddy/ Photo credit Llywelyn2000, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Blue Lagoon's strange beauty has made it a magnet for film crews. In 2000 the music video for Delerium's 'Silence' (featuring Sarah McLachlan) was filmed at the lagoon - Sarah McLachlan running across slate clifftops, the impossible blue water visible behind her. The 1961 Ham...

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