Wadden Sea National Park
If you climbed up onto an embankment somewhere on the North Sea coast to take a look at the sea, you could be in for a disappointment - there's not a drop of water to be seen! Instead a broad, barren flatness stretches away before you. But don't panic, the North Sea will be back - in the Wadden Sea, the water ebbs and flows twice a day, in a six hour cycle. Giving rise, between Den Helder in the Netherlands and Esbjerg in Denmark, to a 10,000 square kilometre large wetland, the like of which is found nowhere else in the world.If you once walked through the wadden sea barefoot you will return. It’s a great experience. As a child I often walked there and I loved it. But: you have to be careful. Don’t walk to far away from the coast. If the tide is coming the water is faster than you can run. Every year people have to be rescued by helicopters and sometimes people are drowning.In order to...



























