Yes, I saw that. I did not know there was sinking sand there. How frightening.
They don't appear to have clarified whether they were on a path or not so if this WAS on a bridle path this is potentially very dangerous.
@Angelagain do you know if the dunes/beach are anything to do with NRW? It would explain the lack of concern for horses/riders as they don't seem to like us on any of 'their' land at all.
The original post says it's a bridlepath and some comments confirmed it's one of the bridlepaths that the local racehorse trainer uses. But some comments are saying they were 60m off the bridlepath so I guess it shows why you need to stick to paths if that is the case.
I'll go back to MM if that's the case. Kenfig is lovely but it'safair bit further and the car park is very open. I've known two horses leg it from Kenfig (one from the dunes themselves and one from the car park after a ride) One ended up nearly on the M4 (got caught on the slip road) and one on the golf club which they weren't happy about.I've been hopelessly lost as Kenfig on foot multiple times, I'd never be seen again if I went there with a horse! If there are no markers it's easy to see how they ended up off the correct path, GPS is awful down there so it's not even like you can use a phone with a map.
It does look suspiciously like MM is under NRW jurisdiction. Sadly Kenfig is being handed back to NRW next year which means you'll soon need a permit to ride there too.