Perfect Beach Summer - Perfect Summer Beach

What comes into your mind, 

when you contemplate / think about "summer beaches"???

Hordes of people, heat, yelling, noise, the smell of sun cream ...?

;-)

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And what's you personal idea or belief about a perfect summer beach???

OK, there are certainly as many ideas about this issue as there are different kind of people and their personal preferences and commitments.

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I want to invite you to follow me on a trip to my (idea of a) perfect summer beach...

This one looks different from the first picture, doesn't it!?!?! ;-)

Is your idea of a perfect beach - even on the peak season - related to

rest & recreation, quiet (except for bird calls and the sound of the sea), beauty & harmony, pleasant temperatures & a light wind, sense of well-being, hang around & long beach strolls, looking for shells and relaxing in a beach chair???

--> Hey - that's absolutely what I prefer, too!!! ;-))

The only thing you have to take into consideration to get this is:

Don't try to be a part of the sheep flock!

In the morning or evening time during a sunny day the beach is to a great extend - yours!

Apart from some other savourers and connoisseurs!

Have you ever watched porpoises, also called mereswines [German: Schweinswale] in front of an overcrowded beach ?

Here's a porpoise mother with two almost adult youngs looking for fish, shells and conches...

...these ones were already whale food! ;-)

And the cormorant was waiting for a yummy bite of fish as well. 

Driven by North Sea wind!

I hope you enjoyed my trip to a nearly perfect summer beach!

Now try to find your own one!

;-)

 

The world's most beautiful sand heap!

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

 All photographs taken on the island of Sylt, July/August 2013.

 At the most northern tip of Germany, at the peninsula Ellenbogen / elbow of Sylt.

 In the background lighthouse List East, one out of five lighthouses on the island.

Sylt Beach Art.

All made from findings at the beach.

Kampen Cliff.

 View along the beach to the north.

Ancient lighthouse "Quermarkenfeuer Kampen". 

The landmark in the dunes west of the village of Kampen.

Hühnergötter / witch stones in a beach chair.

 

 Wellhornschnecken / waved whelks on a stick.

Typically German "beach furniture": the beach chair / der Strandkorb. 

Protection against sun, wind and sand. 

 My beach chair is my castle.

Kampen Cliff taken from the north.

Where is your favourite sand heap???

The perfect wave!?

Hoernum Odde - the southern tip of the island of Sylt, where the open sea meets the Wadden Sea. 

Twice a day you have high and low tide - business as usual.

  But when the water from the Wadden Sea runs out into open sea direction and meets the open sea waves in combination with strong westerly winds coming from the reverse direction, you'll see this special scenario.

It's like the North Sea is on the boil...

...and sometimes miraculous waves emerge and forge sweeping shapes for the split of a second.

Top and bottom: Two photographs of the same wave, just a blink of the eye between both pictures.

And these are my favourites of the photo shooting...

[ exposure time 1/8000 sec., aperture 6.3, ISO 800 ] 

to flash-freeze the scene.

At the same time, just in the rear of the wave spectacle:

peace and silence at the Wadden Sea at the harbour of Hoernum shielded by the dunes!

flintstone 'n' driftwood

Finds at the chalk coast of Sassnitz, Rugia / Rügen...

...designed, created and arranged (mainly) by nature.

Rugia / Rügen

Things you can't do on a sandy beach like this...

- - -   stone stacking   - - -   stone balancing   - - -   Steine stapeln   - - -

 

flintstone beach Sassnitz, island of Rügen

granite and gneiss bay at the steep coast in the northeast of Bornhom, DK

In my humble opinion stone stacking / balancing is a leisure time activity that really rocks... ;-)