Ever since I’m living close to the sea, I wanted to make pictures of the sea and the beach during a heavy storm. But mostly when there is a storm, it also raining. My old camera (Nikon D40) could not stand any water. My new camera (Nikon D300s) is much more capable to handle rain, but still I don’t want to take any risk.
So when I got out of bed this morning (much later than I do normally), I heard the wind blowing hard outside my apartment. But there was almost no rain, so the plan to make pictures was there…
I checked the internet and saw that wind had a strength of 7 to 8 on the Beaufort scale (more on that later). Yeah, that is what I wanted, specially with almost no rain. I decided to go to the beach of Zandvoort aan Zee. The railroad station there is very close to the beach, so if the weather really would turn bad it would be easy to get home again.
A pity Marion was not here today, she would have loved to come along with me.
Trip with the train to Zandvoort aan Zee went without any problems…
Well, I got what I wanted. The wind was blowing extremely hard. On my iPhone I could read that on this moment the wind had a strength of 8 on the Beaufort scale. That means that wind was blowing with a speed of 17.2 to 20.7 meter per second. Walking was difficult. At times I really had to lean into the wind, which was pulling and pushing me to get me out of balance. But I took care that didn’t happen. I was not alone with this, many people around me had trouble with walking. And it may sound strange, but almost everyone was enjoying it very much. I know I was…
The wind made the sand almost act as a sand storm in a desert. The was scratching my face and hurting my eyes. There were moments I could not see anything anymore because of the tears in my eyes (I really had to turn away from the wind and clean my eyes from the sand). The sound of the wind and the sea was so loud that it was close to not possible to understand what someone else said. And yes, I still loved it very much!
The real big question is of course: Do I dare to go there again to make pictures with a storm that has the strength of 9 on the Beaufort scale (wind speed of 20.8 to 24.4 meters per second)????
So, do You go there when the wind is blowing 9 beaufort? (Real good for sand-blasting your camera) hihi. ….