#helgoland

[besidethepath]

Happy 14th birthday, Algy! Fourteen is a tricky age, but I'm sure your assistant will help you through it.

I'm sending you some friends who live in magnificent colonies in your native Scotland, even during rainy and windy summers. In Germany, there's only one small breeding colony on the island of Heligoland, where I took photos of these wonderful gannets in 2024 and 2025. Wishing you a wonderful birthday! 🥳

[vintagegermany]

Helgoland, Germany 1890s

[theworldatwar]

A German U-boat surfaces in rough seas off the coast of Heligoland (Helgoland), North Sea - 1942. Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Northern Gannet, Helgoland, Germany (2020) Caught in an intimate moment of self-care, a gannet preens beneath soft northern light.

Lana Tannir 

[z-and-the-space-child]

web weaving (Finding out you're neurodivergent in uni)

in order of appearance: Kimochi Warui - Carseat Headrest/ dogs- nouns/Tonight Tonight - Hot Chelle Rae/Fill in the Blank - Carseat Headrest/Lone Star - The Front Bottoms/A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More "Touch Me" - Fall Out Boy/Better In the Morning - Birdtalker/Portions for Foxes - Rilo Kiley/Something Soon - Carseat Headrest/ Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli/Seven days of torture - diamondbrickz/ Here it goes again - OK Go/The Pattern - The Narcissist Cookbook

fun fact. i started this first year. i'm in third year. that's how well the whole "adhd" thing has been going.

[ltwilliammowett]

Storm and four metre high waves off the coast of Heligoland

Photo by Ankerherz

[caspiantorhine]

[henk-heijmans]

Sea view with seagulls, Helgoland, ca. 1910 - by Franz Schensky (1871 - 1957), German