An Unusual Beach Visitor

This morning, in amongst the steadily increasing piles of mussel shells which litter the high-tide line at Littleferry we found....

....an octopus, a good hundred metres or so from the nearest water, and looking....

....very dead - except for an eye which seemed to watch us.

Then, slowly, with much writhing of its tentacles, it gathered itself and set off down the beach but the effort didn't last and we left it....

collapsed on some seaweed.