This isn't the environment in which one would expect to find the delicate beauty of wild orchids, just a few metres back from an exposed beach but if you look carefully at bottom right of the picture....
....there's an orchid growing in the protection of the log.
We searched all round and for some tens of metres up and down the back of the beach, without finding another, yet this one, judging by its size and the development of its flowers, has been in bloom for some days. I would love to know how this plant got itself here.
I have the usual trouble in identifying it but I'll go for a northern marsh orchid - a very lonely one.
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