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Helgoland 4. - 8. 5 2014
Tuesday, 08 April 2014
Fair Lady is waiting for our embarkation for sail across North Sea
Dani, Thomas, Giullia and Priska are already discussing about upcoming adventure.
Leaving typically grey Bremerhaven.
Holger, Giulia and Priska
Not every ship is bananaship.
Frontship.
What brought out all of the others?
Helgoland.
A view over the lower part of the town. Great Britain exchanged the island in 1890 with Germany for ...
... .
But otherwise AWI students met on Helgoland for PhD Days and had meetings Nordseehalle.
In front of the museum.
The lower part of the town was built on the sand beach ant the upper on the sandstone. The arcitecture of houses is quite modern, because most of the bulding was destroyed during the 2nd world war. Construction started in 1952.
AWI on Helgoland mostly employs marine biologists. A flying saucer on the left serves as a reservoir of water for the institute aquariums.
Seals are sunbathing in front of the houses.
The bear is showing a way to a distant Berlin. There are Dutch and Bulgarian flags beside German one.
And the evangelic church of St. Nicholas.
Dani in front of the aquarium.
Another sort of crabs.
Funny fish.
European lobster
Perfect simulation of natural environment.
Shrimp.
Jellyfish. Ups, no, it's a meatfish.
Seahorse
Two of them.
Our hostel.
Beach of the part of the island that was artificially made.
Upper part of the island was much flatter and depressionless before the war. This is what is left from the bunkers.
Western cliff. Island is the only picee of solid rock far around and is thus ...
very attractive to birds.
To this gannets for instance.
Grumpy gannet.
And photographers are attracted to birds. They are constantly shooting them with Canons and Nikons.
This massive of permian sandstone (Bunstein) was supposingly uplifted by the plastic deformations of salt layers below it.
Upper part of the town and undulating surface.
The highest point of the island.
Gut geSchaft!
Artificially made eastern part of the island. Part of the football field is visible on the right side.
Forbidden north beach which is the only that is more ore less left in natural state and is accessible only during the low tide.
Layers of the sandstone and its abrasional remnants.
Kittiwakes (Rissa tridactyla)
It looks like a crossbreed between a penguin and a seagull.
Lange Anna
Is a landmark of Helgoland.
And thus they struggle to preserve it.
Kurze Anna?
Greeting from above from other participants.
Nacists wanted to make the biggest port and airport far around. Piers and creaton on the picture are remnants of that not completely realised plans.
Forbidden path on the west coast includes a walk through the tunnels.
It is protected by concrete.
On the safe side.
A cow!
We visited Düne as well.
Of course there are not flags of Netherlands and Bulgaria but flags of Schleswig-Holstein and Helgoland.
Sand adapted vehicle.
Dani
Protected dune areas.
But not from excavators.
Common greenshank (Tringa nebularia)
Good morning.
And another bird.
Refreshment.
And quick return.
Düne was once an island made from chalk and limestone but then leveled to sea-level by coastal erosion.
Hallo!
Guided tour with a guide.
Organisatior Julia.
Crow
Oystercatcher
Here is situated a colony of grey seals.
When it is itching behind the ears.
Mini golf on protected dunes.
And artificial lake that was used as a source of drinking water in the past.
Rubbish service.
Liera in Robert tried out how it looks to be a seal..
Airstrip is used by seagulls. For warming up their feet.
But occaisonally it is used by aircrafts as well.
Pinnochio
Very idyllic coast guard building.
Protection against the wind.
There is also one restaurant on Düne.
Tina
Markus
Kristina
Oooo, loooook, seals.
It is a hard task to wobble back into the water.
Seals everywhere.
Evening picture of Helgoland.
And the game of mini golf before departure.
Liera, not too strong.
Long sea wave wavelengths made ship sway a lot.
Which made the walking very interesting :)
But it didn't stop Dorothee to do some ballet.
But the others were swayed into sleep with a little help from the tiredness that came after we didn't want to miss any nice moments on the island. Thank you organisers!