I liked the lines and the soft colour green of the marram grass (helmgras). I find it incredible that this stretch of dunes was man made.
Between the villages of Camperduin and Petten is a dike called the Hondsbossche zeewering.
This dike is 5,5 km long. In 1421 a storm destroyed the dunes and a big part of Noord Holland was flooded. That was why a dike was build.
The Hondsbossche and Pettemer sea dike no longer met current safety standards. Therefore the dike was reinforced in 2015 with a soft, natural barrier of 30 million cubic metres of sand on the seaside of the dike. It was renamed 'Hondsbossche Dunes'.
The project represents a unique opportunity to study the development of nature on a large-scale sand nourishment. The design consists of a soft shallow foreshore (the beach), with various dune habitats. These connected systems make up the primary flood defence and provide the spatial quality required. https://www.ecoshape.org/en/projects/hondsbossche-and-pettemer-sea-defence/
I converted this photo to b&w too, but chose for the coloured version because of the soft colours....
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