Borkum Holiday - The Beach

One of the great things about the place we rented is that it was on the last street of the island before the beach.  In fact, the beach was about 50m from our door, something we took advantage of right away since the sun was shining.

The North Sea is pretty well known for these striped baskets/tents that are set up all over every beach.  The area is often very windy, so you need a nice sheltered base established to enjoy some nice quiet beach time.

Although it was only 22 degrees on the first day, it felt a lot warmer and the beaches were pretty full of folks in swimwear.  Liam had never been to a big beach before and he was pretty excited with the whole idea of it. He really did not care about the water at all and just wanted to run around the sand for the longest time.  Eventually he discovered the joy of digging holes near the waterline and watching waves come fill them in.  That was a real party.

In this picture you can see the dune covered with shrubbery.  That is all that separated our house from the beach.  One road and one hill with some shrubs.  Can't ask for a better location really...

Another attraction of the beach was this trampoline area.  A large fenced in area with 4x5 grid of trampolines for kids to go crazy.  Liam really wanted to do this, but then he suddenly forgot all about it in favour of playing in the sand and water.  It was funny that he never came back to the idea of trampolining, but that can always be a future activity for another trip I suppose.

The beach near us was the "south" beach, which was the smaller of the two on the island, despite the fact it was about 2km long.  The north side of the island had the large beach, which was easily 3x the size of the smaller one.  It took up the entire north coast of the island.  It was also divided into massive zones.  The bathing zone, the windsurfing zone, the dog friendly zone and kite flying zone.   There was also the naked suntanning zone, but we did not check that part out.  

Below is a panorama of the bathing zone.

Back on our tiny beach, here is a nice image of the radio lighthouse.  Liam and I both really liked the look of this.

Finally, here is a rare photo of me.  Captured on the promenade overlooking the north beach.  Liam is sporting his Peter Puck hat, a current favorite that I approve of.