a herring gull has found something edible
these people have set up camp near the dunes
the aftermath of MadNes, the annual festival on the beach
biking is the preferred means of transportation on Ameland, you can park your iron horse near the beach of Nes
we take a hike in the dunes in het Oerd
a fishing boat from Urk passes by
The eastern end of Amelân is dedicated to the Nature Reserve
Oerd and de Hôn.
In the Hôn mother nature is working
hard to build new dunes, extend and vegetate the mudflats and constantly re-arranging gullies and shorelines.
Het Oerd
is older and features a more diverse landscape with high overgrown dunes and valleys with tidal creeks. There is an lookout
on top of the Oerdblinkert, with 24 meters the highest dune of the Reserve.
More to the west the inhabited world starts with the hamlet Kooiplaats and the small
village of
Buren (once known for its beachcombers) and the more busy
Nes.
Nes and its beach are Amelân's
major tourist destination. Some locals complain that in summer they feel overrun and Amelân as they know it is quickly
disappearing...
All those tourists (more than 600.000 of them) arrive by ferry from Holwerd and dock at the pier near Nes.
Here you also find the marina
Het Leijegat.
for most tourists this is where the vacation starts, the pier of Nes
one of the typical streets in Nes
tourist take a ride along the waterline
shells aplenty along the beach
we return at the Kooikers Huus
the famous beach restaurant Sjoerd
