People and ship watching
Heading north the thinking was to overnight on an aire in a town of Den Helder where you can take the ferry to Texel, the islands above Holland, however we didn’t like the aire, too big, busy and unpleasant in the heat with the vans too close together.
We are now spending the night at an aire in Den Oever overlooking a large area of water coming in from the right through a lift up road bridge, (basically the road to the start of a 30km causeway). The vessels look wonderful motoring majestically past, heading to or from the port or open water releasing their sails once out onto the open, we think the North Sea, to escape this busy part of the world. There are any number of sailing ships, many are old, most have two masts, one had three. The bf shows three masts with a two in front of it. Also small sailing boats, a barge has just motored through, we think it was delivering sand to just around the corner and now a long pleasure boat full of people and bicycles.
It is cooler this evening and it’s good to watch and listen to the chat of terns, black headed gulls on the water, a cormorant popped up and flew away, a pair of coots are meandering under the liftup bridge. And I just looked up to see a heron fly away, it must have just stood to my left, out of sight on the waters edge.
Hope to load more later.
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