A Land of wide Horizons
My photos from the North Sea are there - beware of picspam!
I spent my vacation with my mother at St Peter Ording. The whole area of Eiderstedt is a peninsula and famous as a refugee for birds, so let's start with a big flock of birds resting in the wadden sea:
mostly oyster catchers and seagulls. Oyster catchers provide much of the background soundtrack for the wadden sea, you can always hear their 'blip blip blip'.
The joys of a walk on the beach. (My mother is the walker here.) The temperature was not always inviting for bathing, but real North Sea lovers are used to combine wool pullover and anorak with bare feet.
The endless horizon is often the stage for dramatic skies:
I love the soft hues of the North Sea sky towards evening. A look back to our bathing place as we leave the beach.
A short Story of a Goose
One day my mother and I made a bycicle tour and found a grey goose sitting on the road:
It didn't stand up or fly away when we came nearer, and I realized it was hurt. So I grabbed it and carried it back to the NABU station we had visited before, a house of nature friends and natural scientists. The do guided tours to the wadden sea, have a library, a small museum and a beautiful natural garden.
It turned out that I had found their own tame goose named Kaki, which was missed some days. Kaki's right foot was hurt. Kaki is a young goose from this year, and they hoped it would join the wild geese which live around, but so far Kaki has preferred the company of humans.
Kaki eye in eye with one of her (or his?) admirers.
More North Sea pics to come soon!
I spent my vacation with my mother at St Peter Ording. The whole area of Eiderstedt is a peninsula and famous as a refugee for birds, so let's start with a big flock of birds resting in the wadden sea:
mostly oyster catchers and seagulls. Oyster catchers provide much of the background soundtrack for the wadden sea, you can always hear their 'blip blip blip'.
The joys of a walk on the beach. (My mother is the walker here.) The temperature was not always inviting for bathing, but real North Sea lovers are used to combine wool pullover and anorak with bare feet.
The endless horizon is often the stage for dramatic skies:
I love the soft hues of the North Sea sky towards evening. A look back to our bathing place as we leave the beach.
A short Story of a Goose
One day my mother and I made a bycicle tour and found a grey goose sitting on the road:
It didn't stand up or fly away when we came nearer, and I realized it was hurt. So I grabbed it and carried it back to the NABU station we had visited before, a house of nature friends and natural scientists. The do guided tours to the wadden sea, have a library, a small museum and a beautiful natural garden.
It turned out that I had found their own tame goose named Kaki, which was missed some days. Kaki's right foot was hurt. Kaki is a young goose from this year, and they hoped it would join the wild geese which live around, but so far Kaki has preferred the company of humans.
Kaki eye in eye with one of her (or his?) admirers.
More North Sea pics to come soon!