{"id":263578,"date":"2025-05-30T06:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T06:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animal\/to-the-beach-my-shetland\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T06:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T06:12:06","slug":"to-the-beach-my-shetland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=263578","title":{"rendered":"To the Beach! | My Shetland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-78170\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>It has been pouring with rain all day and I had visitors from England coming over.\u00a0 We had lunch and then obviously I took them to my favourite spot, Sandness beach.<\/p>\n<p>There was no one around and we had the beach to ourselves, which was lovely and apparently they saw some seabirds too (I didn\u2019t take my glasses with me so couldn\u2019t see a thing).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78174\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_8949-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed showing my Shetland to my friends.\u00a0 I know them from my previous life in England.\u00a0 They got to see my part of the world and hopefully understood why I am here.\u00a0 These days, my love for Shetland is a very important part of me.\u00a0 Living in England feels like another life.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78172\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_8956-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We walked up and down the beach, while I looked for groatie buckies (Trivia arctica \u2013 one of the two species of cowrie shells found in Britain) \u2013 I didn\u2019t find any \u2013 and they looked at the seabirds.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78173\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_8952-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And then home for tea and cake, and of course the rain stopped.<\/p>\n<p><em>(it was a lovely day off, even if it was raining, from making sheep)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-78171\" src=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_8957-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-block sd-like jetpack-likes-widget-wrapper jetpack-likes-widget-unloaded\" id=\"like-post-wrapper-47143706-78170-68394c360f4e7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/widgets.wp.com\/likes\/#blog_id=47143706&amp;post_id=78170&amp;origin=myshetland.co.uk&amp;obj_id=47143706-78170-68394c360f4e7\" data-name=\"like-post-frame-47143706-78170-68394c360f4e7\" data-title=\"Like or Reblog\">\n<h3 class=\"sd-title\">Like this:<\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"button\"><span>Like<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"loading\">Loading&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sd-text-color\"\/><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n\t\t\tThis entry was posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/category\/myshetland\/\" rel=\"category tag\">MyShetland<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/to-the-beach-6\/\" title=\"6:04 pm\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2025-05-29T18:04:45+01:00\">May 29, 2025<\/time><\/a><span class=\"by-author\"> by <span class=\"author vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" href=\"https:\/\/myshetland.co.uk\/author\/francestaylor\/\" title=\"View all posts by Frances\" rel=\"author\">Frances<\/a><\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been pouring with rain all day and I had visitors from England coming over.\u00a0 We had lunch and then obviously I took them to my favourite spot, Sandness beach. 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