Nordic Beach

August 29, 2013

White sand soft tickled my feet as we walked into the dunes on our way out to the beach. As I took each step and listened to the saw grass sway I was reminded how lucky we are to spend a warm sunny day relaxing on the beach in Holland.

The landscape is flat like a pancake, add that to the oceans breeze and you have the perfect combination for wind activities such as wind carting and wind surfing.

                                     

Cart- Surfing

There was a section of the beach flagged off in a square shape. Inside the flags were tricycles with seats low to the ground going around the flags forming a track. These were no ordinary tricycles because they had a sail attached to in allowing wind to provide the power.

The Dutch seem to be respectful of the land because the dunes were well preserved with no litter. As we made our way down we began picking up sea shells that decorated the sand in all shades of orange, blue, and and yellow. Stopping to look up after walking for 5 minutes or so looking at the ground for shells we began to notice we were the only people on the beach that were wearing clothes. We had unknowingly made our way onto the nudest section of the beach. There were tan naked men sitting like hidden soldiers in the dunes. Every now and then one would stand up exposing himself more fully to us. I wondered why there were no women? We were told that women do not come alone as often; usually they would be with a boyfriend or husband otherwise they may be hassled.

After walking quite a ways down the beach we decided to sit on the sand and soak up some vitamin D. We played tic tac toe in the sand and watched seagulls float.