huge wooden owl near windebyer noor.
on our last day in eckernförde we made two walks, one around the windebyer noor ( 11 km ) and in the evening a little stroll along the südstrand to kiekut beach ( maybe 3 km? ). like always, having to say goodbye to a place you love - the baltic sea owns my heart - was really difficult. i didn't want it to end, this little vacation. but the baltic sea gifted us with a wonderful last day & a beautiful sunset so of course this must mean that a return will happen sooner or later. there is still so much to explore around here. i don't know when we will return. my mother expressed the wish to visit the mecklenburg lake plateaus this summer and maybe we're going to do just that, since brandenburg / mecklenburg-vorpommern are also regions of germany that i don't know too much about and got kind of enamoured with when we visited potsdam last november. maybe we also end up at the baltic sea again. we'll see. for now, let's enjoy the last pictures of our baltic sea / eckernförde trip in 2017.
the windbyer noor is a lake that once was linked with the baltic sea. it is used for fishing purposes these days.
the hiking path around the lake was very green & woody, really lovely. we had to hop over little streams every once in a while, which made me feel like a child again.
old dead trees keep being fascinating to me. i think i will never get tired of them.
we left the woods & continued our path through corn fields. always with a view onto the lake. in the back you can see tiny bits of eckernförde.
the sun made the fields look golden.
the white rock. it's a boulder of red granite that was shifted from south sweden to eckernförde in the great ice age. the reason why it's white ( not red ), is because the rock is a very popular bird lookout and well, birds do defecate quite a little bit ;)
we spotted a few of the delinquents on the rock as well - some cormorants.
and on we walked.
passed by really nice roots keeping the tree from falling into the lake ( i'd really like to see some day if the roots won or the lake managed to pull the tree in ).
there was a tiny pond next to the noor with ducks & coots swimming on them.
tiny fiery bugs were crawling around as well. this is a common red soldier beetle.
after a little resting phase we went back to the beach to try catch a nice sunset.
the südstrand ( southern beach ) of eckernförde is not overrun by people at all, it's very quiet even. the beach is not too sandy though, a lot of pebbles & rocks are scattered everywhere. which, if you were an attentive reader those past few years, means that it was basically beach heaven for me. walking along the shores & stopping every now & then for picking up stones & beach gimmicks is one of my favourite pastimes whenever i am at the sea. the more you walk on into the direction of kiekut, the rockier it gets. at the kiekut beach we stopped for a while to stare into a fascinating sunset that changed its appearance every few minutes, from a bright blazing explosion of fire colours to a blue/violet pastel coloured watercolour sky. we discovered this sunset beach on our last day, so it was a bit bittersweet.
at first the sun was really shy and almost decided to get lost behind clouds.
kiekut beach. very secluded & cozy. kiekut by the way is low german for look-out ( guck-aus or ausguck in standard german ). i love this word ( just like i love the northern dialect of german - it's almost a foreign language ).
pebbly beach and tiny waves.
there was a little look-out on that beach as well.
and in front of that look-out a tiny white pebble sculpture.
here's a part of the beach that's obviously showing signs of erosion. the danger of eroding cliffs is always existent and trees fall down on the beach all the time.
beach clover.
the little look-out up close. we didn't get near it, since a lot of those things can turn out to be of military purpose ( eckernförde is an important headquarter of the german navy).
more tiny beach blossoms.
finding beach wood is always nice. the weathered look of it is really soothing to my eyes.
standing on beach wood. notice that i wore my socks arse about face. this sometimes happens. it happens a lot 😂
and then the big show started.
it was a picture perfect sunset, clearly.
the navy firing range emblazoned in fiery sunlight.
and as the sun began to disappear the sky went pastel.
but saying goodbye was fired up with a little illumination.
goodbye sun, goodbye baltic sea.
this picture is such a sight, right? i love all the colours.
we walked back to our car and were witnesses of this absolutely gorgeous evening twilight. the water looks like a visceral fluid, smooth like velvet.
it was so incredibly breathtaking, for real...
the next morning we only had a small stint to the beach again before we headed back home. the research ship planet paid the military harbour a visit. it's a huge ass catamaran, just look at the tiny sailing boat next to it.
the size was really fascinating.
a few days after being back from our vacations i took this moody picture of a midnight lightning storm.
do you have a favourite place to watch a sunset from?
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