the beaches on borkum are really wonderful, especially when you go the beaches in the north and northeast. they are the most natural ones, with high dunes and soft white-grey-ish sand. they are also the beaches that are the most unfrequented. we started this walk on the main beach and walked towards the norddünen ( were we ended up in a café to try a typical east-frisian tea menu - which i got really addicted to the following days ). here is a detailed map of borkum. the landscape was wonderful, with algae colouring the remaining flood puddles green, and green & grey was the whole landscape - which left an big impression on us, as it looked like we stranded on a different planet. the views were wide, almost as if you were in a desert, but a very rank one. it was seriously beautiful to walk in those foreign landscapes, a landscape that i had never encountered before in my life. it was a freeing experience, the open lands and sea next to us, the roaring thunder of the waves tingling in our ears. a sense of peace is what i felt all the time.
shawn approving of the big wide sea.
my father in an almost empty landscape. this picture is a favourite of mine.
more grey and blue landscape. people kind of got lost on the beach, little dots on a huge field of sand.
and then it got a bit greener.
cuttlebone!
small primary dunes.
the dead twigs in the front are what is left of former sea buckthorn bushes.
this big puddle had a lot of life going on inside, green algae grew everywhere and created something that i would compare to a poisonous looking extraterrestrial pond.
these algae built a little world map.
we left the primary dunes towards a more green area.
and found sea buckthorn fruits! they say that 5 of them a day will cover your daily vitamin c demand. they are really sour and bitter, but i still couldn't get enough of these. i'd like to think that sour things cheer up your mood.
beautiful little plants.
fat bumblebee still searching for pollen.
café sturmeck - the little cafe we chose to have an east frisian tea time. it's behind an enormous dune.
on the lookout to the sea.
a little panoramic picture of the landscape we had just wandered through.
these are kluntje ( rock sugar ). they belong into east frisian tea, together with cream, which lightens up the strong taste of the tea.
a big bowl of rice pudding with sugar and cinnamon is a must in east frisia. it was so creamy and soft!
an east frisian tea also needs lots of cream! this beverage quickly became a favourite of mine and it's definitely warming you up on cold autumn days. you can also drink it with rum ( i drank this version a few days later ) and it surely will heat you up even more ;)
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