Grobust

This is where I’d like to be now. Grobust on Westray.

Sea splash

Grobust is one of my favourite beaches on Westray. At one end are rocks which act as a roosting place for gulls …

Grobust is one of my favourite beaches on Westray. Can you see the bodyboarders with their bright boards? I love the slightly …

Westray has traces of a formerly thriving seaweed industry scattered above many of its shores. These kelp-drying walls are called tangle dykes, …

My adventures on the second of five days walking the entire coast of Westray.

All it needs is a little rough weather and the beach at Grobust is filled with beautiful seaweed.

The fact that I’m alive is so incredibly unlikely. To be here now, to witness the Earth turning around the Sun, is a privilege.

Winter days on Westray are very much like the short flight between Westray and Papa Westray. The flight is the shortest scheduled …

Walking down to Grobust beach from the tiny car park I’m suddenly aware of how dramatic the sky has become. There’s such …

I love Grobust beach. The walk down to it from the car park is covered in daisies.

The sea spray at Grobust has an abstract expressionist moment, frozen at 1/1,600th of a second.

There’s just time to say goodbye to Grobust on our tour round the Island.

On Westray, if there’s a lump in a field, it’s either rubbish dumped by a farmer or an incredibly precious and very …

When the sun shines on Grobust beach, it’s time to do what AA Milne described and get sand between the toes. When …

A panorama of Grobust beach on Westray.

The Potentilla is spreading with beautiful vigorous red runners over the shell sand at Grobust.

The most important archaeological find of last year was found on the remote Orkney island of Westray; or at least it was …

Grobust is one of my favourite beaches on Westray. Here it is at sunset.

Grobust is a place I could (and do) go back to again and again. Being up before dawn and going to bed …

The sun sets as a storm brews over Grobust.