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Skagen, Denmark  
Wandering on the Tip (Top...) I
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Our three main paths during our stay late in October.
Western, Eastern and Northern routes.

 The western path



The westcoast was a dissapointment. Here the wind and the sea has smashed into
the sand-dunes and have been rough to the landscape.
Where were the white sand-dunes?
And why were there so much pebbles on the beach?




Even if the beach was long, - it is said that there are about 60 kilometers of beaches here -
on the tip (top) of Denmark, it was definitely no place to walk along barefoot.
Not that we went barefoot at such a time as late in October, but you always dream
about summer when you walk on a beach. (at least we do....)




Never the less, it is wonderful to walk along the beaches and picking up everything.
On this beach we found several of these shells which we have not seen to often before.
It has a rather funny name in norwegian: pelikan-foot- snail...
Of course it has also a scientific name:
Aporrhais pespelecani



It also was here on the Westcoast we found this large piece of razor clam.
(Ensis siliqua). According to our books it should be no more that 20 cm long,
but as this picture shows, this one is a little bit more than 21 cm.
That ought to make it quite a large piece of the razor clams, perhaps a record?



© The Danish "Desert" Raabjerg Mile, Denmark. Panorama by Hans Nyberg

The sand dune "Råbjerg Mile" is the largest migrating dune in Norh of Europe.
It moves with a speed of about 15 m a year and follows the winddirection WSW - ENE.
During the proceeding all vegetation under the huge amount of sand is destroyed,
and the dune includes all loose materials on it's way.



© http://www.gfy.ku.dk/~flyvholm/dune.htm

In fact this dune is BIG. Look at the picture above. Out to the left you see two people!
The dune is about 2 km long, about 1 km wide, and 40 meter high.
Of course some people from mountain-rich countries might laugh at 40 meter...,
but when you realize that the landscape around you are even much lower
you will see that you still have a fantastic view from there.



© The Danish "Desert" Raabjerg Mile, Denmark. Panorama by Hans Nyberg
This large sanddune consists of 40.000.000 cubicmeter sand.
During the past century it has moved about 1.500 meter eastward,
and sooner or later it will have finished wandering from the coast of Skagerrak
to Kattegatt in the East, just as the other sand-dune you can see on the other side,
now blowing out into the ocean there.
 Linker:
 http://www.naturturist.dk/raabjerg/mile_ty.htm mit Panorama
 Wandern am Raabjerg Mile


all pictures. : © www.vulkaner.no except where otherwise stated.




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