the mud flats are very popular as a summer activity. And even though the travel routes to the north, indeed, as of October, to stop, to leave, even in the winter, almost every day on expeditions across the sea. NU.nl went with a winter night excursion through the dark.
“Do you all have your head torch out, and pay close attention to,” says wadloopgids In Scholtens. A group of five, participants will gather around him and turn their light off. At the turning points of the lighthouses on the island of Schiermonnikoog and Borkum island is now pitch-dark on the Issue. The tour guide sweeps his foot in the mud. Immediately, a light, a trail of tiny green flonkeringen under his feet . “Zeevonk,” he said. The participants will begin to be excited by the mud-swept and ice-skating, a glitterspoor of little stars behind.
the Activity was detected in the winter
only a Few people know that in the winter the mud flats. “It’s in the winter to arise,” says Anita (Pat), founder of the winter trips in Pieterburen. “In 1963, for the first time, the idea is to get across the ice to the island of Schiermonnikoog-to-run. It is then modified to be a summer activity.”
The major differences between hiking in the summer, the distance, depth, natural light, and a dress code. In the summer, down to you, it’s fine with a pair of high sneakers, and a pair of shorts. In the winter, it is the right thing to dry and stay warm. Rain boots and rain paints would be required. The tour is limited to the upper parts of the tidal flats. “The water came up to your calves,” says Pat.
This is not the north Pole, but the mud-Flats at read more the tidal in February 2012. (Photo: Coen van der Molen).
Jagged winteromstandigheden
it’s winter, the walks are even more unpredictable. In a hard rain, or a tempest, they can’t go on. “For the first time that we booked, we already had a hotel booked, but as it was, the trip was cancelled,” says a couple from Utrecht, which is now in a second attempt.
“Keep moving, or else you will vastgezogen.”
Wadloopgids, Arno
The group of waddengids Scholtens out of the dusk of the evening, armed with a waadstok (a prikstok for grip and a head light, the dike about it and leave the Mud on it. There was a strong wind on the open expanse of the sea, and a quite a lot harder than sitting in front of the band. The mud was slippery, and every step is accompanied by the sound of the opener is disconnected. “Keep moving, or else you will vastgezogen,” says Scholtens.
in Spite of the wind and a wind chill of 1 degree above zero, no one will be cold. “Phew, the sweat stands on me in the back,” said a ploeterende the woman to her feet with a jerk off. “It’s me, there are still a couple of degrees colder guess”, joked one with another. In a few places, it is a lot of teams to come out ahead, but there are also some parts with heavy sand, where walking is easier going.
in The wadden sea in the last light. (Photo: Video of b y).
Anywhere else in the country is as the same as on here
by Now it was completely dark, and the cutting of the first people to have their lights on. “I’ll let you pick and choose what you’re doing, but within a maximum of twenty minutes to get used to your eyes in the dark,” says Scholtens. One of the charms of an exciting mudflat walkking trip in the winter is that the darkness and emptiness that is so hard to find in the Netherlands, it is good for you to experience.
They are showing up more and more of the stars in the sky, and more zeevonk on the feet. If vuurwerksterretjes shoot it in the light of algae at each and every step of the way. “I can’t just go down and look,” says one man, as if hypnotized.
two and a Half hours later, everyone was dry on the face. Of the group, casting a last glance over the quiet wadden sea, which is just another of the lighthouses on the Wadden sea and the eems harbour are to be seen. It seems to be very late in the evening, but the truth is, it’s only 18: 30. Someone says: “This compact, as it is here, and you will find it nowhere else.”
Practical information < / p> NU.nl it went along with the most recognized wadlooparrangement from Pieterburen. This tour lasts 2.5 hours and costs 17,50 eur per person and day. The tour is suitable for children as young as 6 years of age.
in addition, you can take a tour in read more the tidal and, on request, from the island of Schiermonnikoog and Ameland. For all of the walks, is that the time of departure depends on the tides, and therefore, each and every day at a different time. In case of bad weather, the trip may be cancelled.
This will pull out your water-proof, great-fitting rubber boots and a Thick, knee-high socks, Old shorts or pants over it, a rain paints and a Waterproof jacket, a Hat, a scarf, pair of gloves
