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ah 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 unofficial and does things 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 in the peninsula framed by the baltic sea on one side and a salt water lagoon called a button on the other. the bottom 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 months, so i've brought the range of colors to show you a swab idea. this one would probably appeal to everyone transparent orange others, or you songs, transport them. oh, yellow cons proven not, but they don't have to be transparent. most, some have a milky appearance uncomfort lo, milky or orange milky right through to the nice red tines on term or white ish and really white,

which you can see the top here on kristen. it's looking at and you can believe it's amber rectifies over here. all but with a white bid at the top, it could walk by on the club. one not doesn't bounce around us about us. it was 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's hampton float and word easy is that i'm from where i vote. 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. what should i keep an eye out for it? see we'd shell as the garcia was in brooklyn, new seaweed, preferably not the period with the decisive thing is 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 either the soon of us responded from it too. 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 boat to coast and then pick up a little gem while you read it and then you've got the right combination coming out . feel that's true, then it's a great experience and live myth. while the others keep searching, i hop on a bike to the northernmost part of the peninsula. dasa ot my trip

takes me through a wild and unspoiled forest in the heart of the western pomeranian lagoon area, a national park. no car is allowed around here. the lighthouse 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. 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 while 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 pushed 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 protective 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. ravonne colbert are 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 who has been 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 trenches 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 of the video. i'm a one scene ready 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 if you 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 hull 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 microsoft. ralph. 2000 cubic meters of sand and water

were then pumped on to the beach each time it takes a full hour to empty the whole of the dresser like this. as the beach steadily expanded to a width of 40 meters, the workers kept a close eye on the proceedings. lie up the under, if i need to make sure that the embankments don't give away about the depth on if it's starting to look on certain only to jump in the truck and press the embankment back into place on his argument. 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 adams. hope 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, meets gotten buddha aviana to 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 a. what was there before? the rest is the area that was eroded. so from where the grass topside that this entire stretch down to the shoreline is where fresh sand has been brought in, creating a new white beach. obviously it wasn't on yet, so it was only noir blight of laguna beach. but the extra sand is not enough in itself to keep allens hopes, coastal bluff intact, wave breakers have been added. they help to prevent erosion with v. how endangered is the bluff currently,

momentum does this fill you under cd varies greatly list i. clips generally are in decline, but we only protect coastal areas that are inhabited. she decides nokia all kinds 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 off of a many centuries and washed up there instead, often from without erosion or mecklenburg, western pomeranian wooden habits, beautiful beaches in limerick 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 with painter palmilla. kemp was among the 1st artists to settle here. he's considered one of the founders of the adams hope artist colony. but there were many others who fell in love with this place. on mckayla's time hans amy overlander, who go ye could elizabeth for an 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 islands whole 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 to day. polymer compound, mila kemp 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 that she needed laughing often. so 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 and meet for their origins to see where they themselves had come from. so i know that 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 ab skus 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. artists 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 ah, 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 alan'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 from frenzied us. can you understand that people were fascinated by the atmosphere here? the war facing and lan? yardi? yes. you always read that they were inspired by the atmosphere in the fall is believe long above mission or girlish. oh, and i'm always inspired to when i see the aud him sky that so unique here on the peninsula of often thought and of fish lamp. the volume building the, the cloud formations are so clear and different every time, all different shapes on both. on the la foreman assume uncredited 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 been to the field. and i'll, when, when 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. ah, now i am 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 with i want to check out the shop where these or ne doors have been manufactured for 200 years. if he, me and dick olaf 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, you know, do the doors have a special symbolism? is it a way to show off what you have and where you've been? that's him. yeah, i would. yes. the doors on just for decoration, they need to protect the house,

letting in the good in keeping out evil 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. what. 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, some odd superstitious symbols that a woven into the designs in order to embed stick to the i think the how has this symbolism evolves into people still seek out the same ornaments or do they want other motif has the superstition of all the other global, like the oldest, are 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, try. if a 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 all wind swept trees. are con, they are traditional, but they have their own symbolism boarding because it economy speed you off cranes are linked to good luck. so it fits with the tradition or does come on with them at all or the spice line. do i know you usually don't let amateurs touch your work, but could i try it out and 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. no other grandma give it a try, either 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 wow, i've been breakfast before doing this 3rd,

with the carpenters even cell souvenirs with a lovely selection of miniature. doris. thanks a little piece of dark tradition for my home in real life. 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 sign. 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 isn't he old? so nicole, this is the palm. oh 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, and it's an unparalleled chem, impressive and fascinating. find all the june's in the background are up to 13 meters tall, beautiful lights in the band. the see with the waves. deep blows, one of a, one of

a kind to landscape on the front van blogs hab isaac goddess. with ah 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 marsh land, 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 and ria, the young the cranes build their nests in whitland areas. the shallow waters and marsh land here offer 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 on disturbed, but she can book a boat tour and observe the cranes from soda away boats go both from the towns of plato and born ah ah, my day on the peninsula is coming to an end to soon wind waves and white sand, the fish land does 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 ah, ah, with

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