Rottumeroog the Beautiful....The beacon....

            Just before my departure, I pause for a moment at the beginning of the former drift dike and it looks as if an enormous hand has torn off the dike from the mainland.
I try in vain to imagine the fierce and huge waves there were to make this happen during the December storms in 2013.
The former house and barns of the State Beach Guardian also stood in this spot and it is marked by the three sticks in the sand of the beach.
The old shipping beacon "Emder Kaap" from 1883 balances on the edge of the abbyss and will have to be moved further inland.
In 1999, the 21 1/2 meters high shipping beacon was already moved 150 meters inland and that will have to be done again in the forseeable future because the western coast of Rottumeroog is getting smaller and smaller because the sea continues to affect and wash away the dunes........

   

Taken on: August 10, 2015

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