I realized I’ve somehow forgotten to post these photos from the vacation I took towards the end of last September.
No.1 - A walkway on Juist, one of East Frisian Islands (and a part of National Park Wattenmeer)
No.2 - Two black-headed gulls (winter plumage)
No.3 - White dunes of Juist’s seashore
No.4 - The red streets of Juist - note the absence of all motor vehicles. Only two means of transport are allowed on Juist - bicycles and horse-drawn carriages
No.5&6 - A wonderful sunset over Norddeich
No.7 - The windswept skies over the island Norderney
No.8 - Norderney’s lighthouse
No.9 -A preening purple sandpiper (possibly)
No.10 - The grassy dunes of Norderney
It was always my dream to visit East Frisia (probably saw one too many Jever beer commercial during my childhood), so last autumn I’ve made a trip all the way up to the North Sea, where I stayed for a couple of days in a small town of Norddeich. The weather wasn’t that good, but I still visited two of the seven East Frisian Isles, Juist and Norderney.
As is usual for a person from a land-locked country, I took hundreds of photos of the sea, of tiny little scuttling crabs, of any birds I came across, seaweed, odd-shaped sand, waves, breakwaters... I brought home two empty jars of Rote Grütze filled with shells - I’ve even managed to bring an undamaged sea urchin one. (Yay!)
I’ve also experienced first-hand East Frisia’s famous “Schietwetter” by getting drenched several times and then blown dry. Luckily, it was just my trousers. I wore a poncho and water-proofed my shoes before leaving home.
So - yeah, quite an adventure. (Especially once the storm Mortimer arrived and almost prevented me from returning home by causing havoc in the railway timetable.)
...and the fish was delicious.