We have walked many beautiful beaches in our time - this one is just north of Tanga in Tanzania - and I claim to have been born on a beach, so....
....beaches such as the one at Littleferry have some hard acts to follow.
So we are fortunate to live so near the Littleferry beach: it's an impressive swathe of sand and usually as deserted of humans as any comparable tropical beach - today we saw just three people walking their dogs - but we do like beaches to have some wildlife along their shores.
Our local beaches' lack of life is depressing and concerning. If you search this picture you will find three gulls; and a few gulls were all we saw in the time we spent on the beach. The only other wildlife of note was, along the high-tide line, a line of corpses of....
....dozens of small moon jellyfish.
So we left the beach and wandered across the links where the northern marsh orchids are putting on their annual display. This year the flower-heads are smaller, and some areas have no orchids at all, but the hundreds of flowers are impressive.
We were also pleased to find that, in the coniferous woodland along the back of the links, the creeping lady's tresses were about to flower.
The links also had a few fungi on display, the best being this large common puffball.
On our way back to the car we diverted from the path to see if the dragon- or damselflies were active on Loch Unes but an air temperature of 15C is obviously a bit too chilly for them.
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