Every year, around the last weekend of March, one man with possibly the best job in Wales revs up his tractor and drives on to the most iconic beach in all the land.
The man is 49-year-old Russell Morgan and the beach is Barry Island's Whitmore Bay. It's Russell's job to carefully rakes the sand into neat lines, filling in the holes and clearing up the rubbish from the antics on the beach the day before. It gives him an enormous sense of satisfaction to look back at the meticulously straight lines on Whitmore beach and it's an art he's perfected over the 20-odd years he's done the job, he said.
"People like to see the beach when it's raked," he said. He often posts pictures of his handiwork on Facebook, especially the first rake of the season and the last, he added.
