{"id":56,"date":"2026-04-02T22:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2026-04-02T22:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T22:41:26","slug":"beaches","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/?page_id=56","title":{"rendered":"Beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Beaches are amoungst my favourite places in the world. Not crowded Summer beaches full of other people, but the empty expanses of sand and rock in the other 3 seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is Dunnett Beach <\/a>in Caithness. I took this in October 2025, I like the light and the space. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here on Findhorn Beach<\/a> the beach huts and the sand and shingle where fairly quiet on a bright sunday afternoon in October <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once on the beach it is good to see how people use it , here someone is letting her dogs out on Garlieston Beach <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the beach I try to look for interesting birds<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Common gulls, hanging around<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oystercatcher and the Wave<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sanderling<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Or even dried seaweed<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kelp<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shells in the sand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crab Shell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ring Plover flying past<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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two gulls<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sanderling waiting for the wave<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beaches are amoungst my favourite places in the world. Not crowded Summer beaches full of other people, but the empty expanses of sand and rock in the other 3 seasons. This is Dunnett Beach in Caithness. I took this in October 2025, I like the light and the space. Here on Findhorn Beach the beach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vertrouge.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}