To the end of the earth?

No, it just felt like it. We traveled to Skagen, DK this past weekend. It felt like the end because 1) we drove north until we could drive no further, and 2) the landscape was like nothing I'd seen before - big vegetated dunes coupled with the sound of the surf and roaring winds. It made me think that I had landed on another planet. But, just when I thought I was on top of the world, I checked out a map and saw that there was still a whole nother country above us - Norway. Poohy!

Since arriving in DK, people have been telling us that we HAVE to visit this beach, the northernmost tip of DK, where the waves from two neighboring oceans collide. I was envisioning a strong, cold breeze, and a rocky shore, waves crashing together. Instead I found a fine sandy beach, a gigantic cruise ship passing by in the background, and a mass of people standing on the *tip*. Not quite the religious experience I was dreaming of.


But when I looked down the beach towards the town, there was a steady stream of people coming our way. So it was a pilgrimage of sorts I guess.


The beach by the summer house we were staying at was a bit different. Little houses tucked here and there in between the vegetated dunes. There were a few on top of the dunes, but most were down below. With their vegetated roofs the only thing that usually stuck out were the chimneys.



The cabins are easier to see at night actually.


The thing I least expected however was the peat and sandy peat within the enormous Dunes along the beach. There was an entire layer of it being blasted away by blowing sand. The contrast between this ages old peat, high on the landscape (to make that peat at the landscape position, the water would have to have been at the level for a long, long time..a long, long time ago)...along with the constant wearing down before-my-eyes of the dune...We are just a blip in time.





So if we are a millisecond of a speck in time, life truly is too short not to enjoy it.