Showing posts with label Zeeland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zeeland. Show all posts

Sunday 20 October 2013

Zealand, the Nederlands ( № 1)

A few weeks ago, I went on a school excursion for field research. We went to Zeeland, a province of the Netherlands, to examine life in -and around- salt water.

I will write several blogs about this excursion, because there is so much I want to tell and show.

We stayed in a former farmhouse, called 'de Schelphoek'. (You can see an area in the map below called 'Schelphoek'.) Today I will show some pictures of the area, which was formed by the 1953 North Sea flood. In the map below, you can see the huge gap in the dyke (in between the 'lines' in the water) the flood caused. They were not able to close the gap, so that's why the land still misses a piece in that area. The sea actually took a mouthful of land and swallowed it.

 

Day one

The first day, we had a walk through the 'Schelphoek' area. The camp manager showed us how the area had emerged and which kind of plants and animals found their place in and around the area.
 
The 'new' dyke, built after the flood. A lot of oysters live on the shores.

Indy, the camp manager's dog.
A spit.
View from the dyke.
Landward, one of the small lakes of 'Schelphoek'
Common sea-buckthorn, a plant with edible berries. The berries of this
plant are rich in vitamin C.