Today Sanne (who visited me this weekend) and I made a nice walk on the beach. When Sanne is here, she mostly likes to visit the beach. I really can understand that, because when you far from the coast (as she does) the beach is something special. I live here now more then a year close to the beach, but it is still very special to me…
We decided to go by train to the beach of “Zandvoort aan Zee”…
The beach of “Zandvoort aan Zee” is very easy and within reasonable time to reach. That is most important reason why we went there.
The weather was nice. The sun was shinning and I had the feeling that I could already feel the spring in the air.
Many people had the same idea as we had. But it was nice this way, not too crowded and enough people to make it all alive.
Of course I did bring along my camera. I just love to take pictures of the beach and the sea. I also made some nice pictures of Sanne (but by her own request they are not placed here on the public part of my blog).
As Sanne had one of her dogs (or rather one the dogs living at her father’s farm) with her, she had dog cookies with her. Just as humans, dogs work the best by a positive reward :P. And of course the dog did anything Sanne wanted to get such a cookie…
But as we found out seagulls also love dog cookies. Sanne got by that fact a nice idea. She lured the seagulls with little pieces of a dog cookie. The seagulls reacted on that very quickly and gathered in great amounts on the places where Sanne did thrown the pieces of the cookies. There were so many seagulls that I really had to think of the movie “Birds”. But this way I could make some very nice pictures of the seagulls…..
Sanne is very good friend to Marion and me. I am happy that Sanne and I get along so good. After Sanne and Marion go together back a very long time (they went to school together, that should say enough 🙂 ). Sanne is also a very good person to talk with. She listens very well and very understanding. It always a pleasure to talk with her. During the walk many subjects passed. Some that made us laugh, other were more serious. It is good to able to talk like that.
Before we returned home we ate some fish at a stand near the beach. It was delicious. I like fish, but as it turned out Sanne loves fish even more. The baked mussels and shrimps tasted also great.
It was a great spend day…
Edit: Although I like the pictures I made today. But I was wondering why they were not as sharp as usual. I just found out why… the ISO setting of my camera was set to the highest value and that is no good for taking pictures outside during the daytime. One more reason to visit the beach soon again 🙂
It was indeed very nice Rob. Be sure I will often coming over for walks on the beach 🙂
I am glad that you can get along very well too. And it is nice to hear that you had a very nice weekend.