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At Amrumtief (0662)

At Amrumtief

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Different layers of sand form a patchwork of colors here, plus the green water of Amrumtief, the tideway east of the island of Amrum. The tideway can be recognized actually also only as Amrumtief, because navigation markings are clearly visible in the picture.

Otherwise, it is for me simply also an abstract image of colors and shapes.

Ripple (0707)

Ripple

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North-east of Amrum Odde lie many sandbanks, which only emerge from the sea during low tide. These sandbanks, which lie close under the water surface for a long time, form these beautiful ripple structures on their surface. Here you can see the ripples even in the tideways, which are colored green in the picture.

The whole picture is full of ripples! Somehow it looks to me as if you were looking at reptile skin.

The end of Amrumodde (0700)

At the end of Amrum Odde

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At the northwestern end of Amrum Odde, a deep wadden tideway curves around the chain of dunes. If you look closely, you can see the prigs that mark the fairway around the Odde.

What I find exciting about the megaripple structures northwest of Amrum Odde is the green colored water. This will be shown more clearly in further posts.

Amrum in golden light (0388)

Amrum — with Amrum Odde in golden light

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The longer we were in the air that evening, the more bands of clouds made themselves noticeable in the west over the North Sea — the sun only came into effect a little and the Wadden Sea looked mostly gray and boring again. We were looking for a few spots of light and were turning just north of Amrum when a beam of light hit Amrum Odde and the mudflats to the east.

What a magnificent sight!

Only the Odde was shining in the warm evening light, the rest of the island of Amrum was in shadow, even the Kniepsand could hardly be made out in the main part of the island. Behind the glowing Odde, the island curves through the picture.

 

This is a picture, how one gets it from nature only rarely. I was once again lucky to have been at the right time in this place.

Norderoogsand (0228)

Norderoogsand

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The middle of the three outer sands in the Wadden Sea National Park and just as special. Since the 1990s, a new island is emerging in the northwest of the sand. At first, only dunes that overtopped most floods, now beach grass and other crops of the Wadden Sea. However, one can see here very clearly that storm surges have left their mark on the dunes. Therefore, one can continue to watch with interest how this dune island and the Norderoogsand as a whole will change with the rising sea level.

In the background you can still see the Süderoogsand, with its rescue beacon in the center. A little further behind it on the left, the Hitzsand and the dune belt of St. Peter-Ording can still be seen very faintly.

Hooger Loch (0225)

A (still existing) passage

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Between the Norderoogsand and the Japsand further north, there is still a tidal channel that drains the Hoogeloch. It is expected that it will silted up in the near future, because the Norderoogsand is expanding strongly to the north-east and has already swallowed a tideway between the Hallig Norderoog and the sand.

In my picture, however, you can still see the strong tide flow »opposing« the siltation. At the top of the picture you can see the dune island on Norderoogsand, which has been developing since the end of the 1990s and has already survived many storm surges. It is being scientifically monitored by the National Park Authority.

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