Beach mushroom.
@cliffordbeshers I've seen gorgeous orange fungi on bits of driftwood, but not mushrooms just growing out of the sand like that!
@Miraz what!?!? Maybe there’s something in the sand/under the surface? As Spock would say: Fascinating.
@Miraz Oh, that is unexpected, right? In humid forest, in shadows, yes sure, but on the beach???
@miraz Apparently, there are varieties of mushroom that grow in sand, often specialized to feed on the roots of grasses.
@cliffordbeshers Wow. Excellent find thanks! I think that second link is what I saw. "Dune Brittlestems are saprotrophic on dead Marram Grass" — that would make sense as there's a great deal of Marram grass in our dunes, and recent storms may well have killed some of it off.