lou with with fresh wind, my eyes set on the horizon, hardly a person in sight. just my writing instructor, anna, and i. amazing. here on the baltic coast horseback riding on the beach is only allowed between october and april.

i'm on the fish land does things to peninsula, one of the most beautiful coastal regions in the state of mecklenburg, western palmer rainy others, long beaches, wild forest and cute little fishing towns. and today we're going to explore all of that together. ah, ah, i'll hunt for amber along the peninsulas northern shore. i'll check out the former artist colony island school. and try my hand at keeping a centuries old tradition alive. ah ah ah, fish london sings is a peninsula framed by the baltic sea on one side and

a salt water lagoon called a button on the other. the button is separated from the sea by the peninsula. there are hardly any waves here. perfect for some smooth sailing windsurfing and swimming . in the summer, it's super busy. but in the colder months, the sandy beaches are completely empty. perfect for those who like me, are looking for a tranquillity in nature. in winter, the waves and the wind are slightly more wild, treating ideal conditions for a little treasure hunt every thursday. martin hagaman shows locals and tourists how to find amber along the shore line. this stretch of coastline is famous for it,

because mon paso have brought the range of colors to show you a swab idea. this one would probably appeal to everyone transparent, orange, others all use longs conference or yellow cons, proven not, but they don't have to be transparent. most, some have a milky appearance and comp yellow, milky or orange milky. through right through to the nice red tines on term or whitish and really white, which you can see the top here on kristen and looking at it. you can believe it's amber advise us your own. but with a white bid at the top of your bought by on the club, my knock doesn't bounce around us about us. it would vices by then he knew. but if i just showed you that it, you think it was old chewing gum? but no, i that sam bit too, because so how do you know if it's amber? the most reliable method is the salt water test. i looked up on you put everything you found into a glass and filled with water and heat or the amber stays at the bottom of the stir

in a desert spoon of salt. and anything that is handed and float and word easy is that i'm from the ivr. amber is not actually is still, but was form from the resin of trees and fossilized over millennia. but no matter how hard i try, i can't find even the tiniest fragments. now my lucky day, that's awesome, that's roughly the size that you find these days and gone. unfortunately, it's our only find to day. what could i have done better? will not hide. why should i keep an eye out for it? see we'd shell as the garcia must in brooklyn, new jersey will preferably not appearing with the decisive thing as driftwood don't let those dark wood paces that sink when you throw them back into the sea. this kind of wood has roughly the same density as amber, so there's a good chance that amber will be there to other the soon of us are sounded familiar

. but i always encourage people to enjoy the walk on the beach and keep their eyes peeled at the same time as you might find an out of stone or fossil. it's just so good to be out walking on the baltic coast and then pick up a little gem while you read it and then you've got the right combination coming to feel that's true, then it's a great experience. while the others keep searching, i hop on a bike to the northern most part of the peninsula. dasa ot my trip takes me through a wild and unspoiled forest and the heart of the western pomeranian lagoon area. national park. no car is allowed around here. the light house is iconic. it's the oldest of its kind still in use along the baltic sea coast. the 120 steps up to the platform,

help me warm up soon when the weather is right, you can see all the way to denmark. from here from up here, it's easy to see how the sea is shaping the coast line. the sand that the waves sweep away down south is carried out here to dasa aunt. over the centuries that dynamic has led to the formation of a headland reaching into the baltic sea. and it keeps growing. but wild dasa ought to gain some 10 meters every year. the peninsula loses land and

other parts. tides and storms have left their mark on allens hope. the coastline is constantly evolving every year storm tides push the shore line back by a couple of centimeters here at islands. whole heavy machinery is used to protect the local population from coastal erosion and a baltic sea that is creeping dangerously close. this was the scene here a few weeks ago. around $10000.00 tons of sand were pumped out onto the beach. at ovens, hope a bulldozer was used to spread the sand out evenly, creating a new wide beach with a protect of sand dune behind it. the operation cost $5000000.00 euros.

germany's northeastern coastline is being eroded by an average of $35.00 centimeters a year. darcy's west coast is particularly at risk of von sylva unsold the wind and waves really eat into the coastline. in addition to protecting the houses, we also need to stop. you'll see water breaking through into the lagoon. so there's a lot of coastal protection work that goes on here into the person's lives with me . sandy water was pumped on to the beach along a 4 kilometer stretch of coastline. the workers gradually added pipes to lengthen the reach. each section is 12 meters long. the work was carried out and shifts and continued around the clock. large stretches, travelled about 12 kilometers out to sea and sucked in the sand from the sea bed. once full, the vessels then moved into a docking position off the coast of athens. hope is the dice. if you did you. i'm a one seen rudy. these embankments that we're building up

a just to channel the water and sand into the right place. so we don't have to move it later. she muzzle the flexible end of the pipe was drawn along the seed bed up to the beach. at the other end, it was linked to the whole of the treasure. the quality of the sand was 1st checked . thorns, as their use is perfect, mostly not too many shows a good grain size. we can work well with that under just what you need for coastal protection of the grossman cells. ralph. 2000 cubic meters of sand and water were then pumped onto the beach. each time it takes a full hour to empty the whole of a dresser like this. as the beach steadily expanded to a width of 40 meters, the workers kept a close eye and the proceedings. maria and i need to make sure that the embankments don't give away my laptop if it's starting to look on certain only to jump in the

truck and press the embankment back into place. i or the diagonal one awkward this time that wasn't necessary. the work was completed by early march as planned. all that's needed now is new beach grass, another guard against erosion the tides are particularly strong at out and so that's why here the beach fillings have to be repeated periodically. and then to see my own co looking around what's been brought here and what's the natural substance that would still be here, even if nothing had been done and it's gotten buddha of jarmetta look at. obviously we are fortunate that the work hasn't long been finished. so it's clear to see that the areas where you can see beach cross growing. what was there before? the rest is the area that was eroded. so from where the grass topside with that his entire stretch down to the shoreline is where fresh sand has been brought in.

creating a new white beach. obviously it wasn't what gets ultrasound annoy, applied to laguna, been but the extra sand is not enough in itself to keep out themselves coastal bluff intact, wave breakers have been added. they help to prevent erosion with the how endangered is the bluff. currently, momentum does is fill you under cds varies greatly list i. clips generally are in decline, but we only protect coastal areas that are inhabited. she decides nokia organs hope is right by the cliffs. that's why we're active here. and so we allow other cliffs and coastal areas to recede as the dynamic of sedimentation takes its course exclusively. that's important to the whole area of data. old bank that was only created because material was eroded from here all over many centuries and washed up

there instead of info without erosion or mecklenburg, western pomeranian wooden habits, beautiful beaches mimic and look for them. sandy beaches that enchanted visitors even over a 100 years ago. at the end of the 19th century, the search for freedom and a more simple life brought many artists to adams hope they felt drawn to the small village by this particular lights and the landscape. and it went on to inspired them for decades. painter palmilla kemp was among the 1st artists to settle here. he's considered one of the founders of the adams whole artist colony but there were many others who fell in love with this place. i mckayla's time

hunter, amy ober lender pooh! go ye could elizabeth from icon and many other artists. they built a creative environment that even during the war offered them refuge to create to paint and to write the organs full art museum is dedicated to the colony. with more than 800 exhibits, it's the largest collection of works by artists from the region, starting from the founding era. right up till today. paula, with a compound mill at camp was one of the most influential artists in the colony. this is one of his very beautiful paintings. what else can you tell me about him? yeah, yes i. she is one of the 1st to settle here. and she knew doug,

laughing heart and soul hadn't always been a magnet for artists about this. this entire peninsula actually, and the island of logan to for lunch have a phone conference. artists came last night actually from berlin off on monday they were searching in nature for their origin was full to see where they themselves had come from fine as it for i'm also on the one hand, they were looking outward to what was happening outside of wind whether vegetation, rural living, and then they were looking inward to alan's, i don't know what's going on in me, but where's the original in me is in his eps gus worship going the hill light and space. nature and solitude. allen's hope was a place of yearning for the artists. ah,

and their legacy is still alive. to this day, our dances and art aficionados come to the small town. and if you're lucky, you might get to watch one of the current artists at work with . and i know donna is famous around these parts. the 85 year old is a graphic artist, a painter and sculpture. he worked as a sign painter in former communist east germany and came to adam's home often in his youth. in 1992 he moved here for good just like his colleagues from back in the 19th century, he's inspired by the surroundings with transit as can you understand that people were fascinated by the atmosphere here,

the war facing and fan the yard you? yes, you always read that they were inspired by the atmosphere in the fall is believe long or bus mission or girlish. oh, and i'm always inspired to when i see the autumn sky that's so unique here on the peninsula of often boss and of fish lamp. the volume building the, the cloud formations are so clear and different every time are different shapes on both. on the la foreman, as among credited him, you could just paint the sky the shapes, and that would already be a picture. and you definitely feel inspired by looking at it, and that was what moved the artists back then to the world. and i'll, when will i see you don't have so many clouds in your pictures. but how does that unique setting influence you and your craft? what effect does it have on you? your, the, it expresses itself in my paintings of the landscape or which is under the sky. did a window leak, windham hill. it's automatically based in

a light that you very rarely have anywhere else on. it comes gung, sewed and brought on those hug. hey, now i'm off to the former fishing village people. back in the 19th century. this place was almost exclusively home to seafarers and their families. that long ceased to be the case, but the towns maritime passed has left a colorful mark in the shape of these doors. i want to check out the shop where these or ne doors have been manufactured for 200

years. if he, me and dick hold off, come from a family of wood workers there. great grandfather, design doors and gables for the area. and the 2 brothers are continuing the family tradition. i'm the of the do the doors have a special symbolism? is it a way to show off what you have and where you've been with him? yeah. as well. yes. the doors on chance for decoration they need to protect the house, letting in the good and keeping out evil. the thing is there is symbols like scaly patterns designed to look like alma the idea was to stop evil crossing the threshold of the house. come, there are bunches of tulips that you see on many old dogs. they're seen as a symbol for the tree of life. then on nearly all the doors, you have the sun, often as a semi circle, which is a rising sun, seen as something positive. so you have these age old,

somewhat superstitious symbols that are woven into the designs in order to embed stick to the i think, how has this symbolism evolves into people still seek out the same ornaments or do they want other motif has this superstition of all the other global flight, allister, glad like, oh, it's like this is we still produce the symbols and there's one against lightning strikes. that's very popular. it clearly works as we've had no complaints to become important. whether that's true, if they bound you have a problem, but there are also new motifs linked to the coast and to dance mimi, we often paint cranes, for example, a popular local bird of the order, or wind sweat and trees are con. they are traditional, but they have their own symbolism boarding because it economies video of cranes are linked to good luck. so it fits with the tradition, does come on with them and i often advise line to, i know you usually don't let amateurs touch your work, but could i try it out? maybe on a bit of bare woods. i'm not. yes, we've started

a few cranes. we can give it a go. all right, let's do it. as we get him, i'll give it a try. as more pressure here, they all can. all that's right. rest your left hand on the surface and move to the side to recommend having a been breakfast before doing this has been working with the carpenters even cell souvenirs with a lovely selection of military doors. thanks. a little piece of dark tradition for my home and really ah, to wrap up my visit,

i want to explore the eastern tip of the peninsula and the area of club aunt. i'm joined by former ranger, freedom and bots. we dive deep into the western pomeranian lagoon area national park here where the baltic meets the lagoon waters. the untouched nature shows it's most serene and peaceful sight ah . right before reaching plum odds we climb hor due now the high do a very sensitive biotech and off limits to hikers and explorers

because of his int he old. so nicole, this is the palm ot hi june. i one of the highlights here in the national park forest device. it's the largest white june field on the german baltic sea coast and south, and it's an unparalleled chem, impressive and fascinating by into the june's in the background are up to 13 meters tall, beautiful lights in the band. this c with the waves deep blows with a one of a kind to landscape on the front van blogs hab isaac goddess ah, ah, i flew right now things are quiet. but a couple of months ago, it was a lot more crowded here. this national park is home to one of the biggest resting

spots for cranes in all of central europe on their way down. south. thousands of migrating birds come here and offer an amazing spectacle. literally, in passing up to $50000.00 cranes, gather at palm ot in the east of the peninsula during the month of october and november, they come from scandinavia and the baltic and stop here to feed and build up energy reserves for the long flight south. the national park off his ideal conditions in the shallow waters of the lagoon and surrounding marshland. the cranes find both protection and food. wetlands like these are vital for the cranes but are becoming ever more rare in central europe.

they also need them to nest andrea. the young the cranes build their nests in whitland areas. the shallow waters and marsh land here offered them protection from predators like wild boar and foxes. conservationists keep an eye on the birds. they put rings equipped with gps on the young ones. this tells them a lot about the birds, migratory roots and nesting places, allowing them to protect the cranes more effectively. the nesting and resting place is largely off limits to visitors from september to early november. it can only be accessed with a national park cod. this is to ensure the birds are disturbed, but she can book a boat tour and observe the cranes from further away. boats go boats from the towns

of prey hall and born with my day on the peninsula is coming to an end. too soon. wind waves and whites and the fish like dust, things, peninsula is a true paradise for travelers and the summer. it's great for swimming and surfing, and in the winter time you can hop on a horse or simply enjoy the wilderness a great spot. any time of the year, ah, ah, ah ah

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