{"id":384022,"date":"2026-01-22T11:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384022\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:09:09","slug":"rare-octopus-spotted-on-tenbys-north-beach-before-vanishing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/384022\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare octopus spotted on Tenby&#8217;s North Beach before vanishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is not the first time an octopus has washed up Welsh shores, after two were seen and rescued, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-wales-60516908\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crawling on a Ceredigion<\/a> beach in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On another occasion, an octopus was spotted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn3308gn350o\" class=\"ssrcss-6mgqu7-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">changing colour in footage<\/a> captured at Menai Bridge beach on Anglesey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gareth, a professional photographer from Pembroke, said the low tide at North Beach in Tenby led to a &#8220;sense of anticipation&#8221; that was soon rewarded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I unexpectedly came across a beautiful common octopus,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I watched, completely absorbed, as it began to bury itself in the sand, its skin shifting colour and texture in an effortless display of camouflage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The octopus &#8220;soon vanished from sight, as quietly as it had appeared&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is not the first time an octopus has washed up Welsh shores, after two were seen and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-384022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}