Marilyn and all...

Perfect sunny Spring Sunday at the North Sea Beach, last day of Easter holiday, fun for all! 

De Panne

It feels as if we have been waiting for sun forever... and finally here it is shining on De Panne, a beautiful beach-town, the last one before the border with France. De Panne is known for its wide nature reserve and widest beach at our Coast, a fact which you can hardly notice on the pictures because of the high tide.
What I am not talking about though is the time it took to travel 150 km from Brussels to the coast on the highway in a hot car... I was not the only one who had the splendid idea of spending a Sunday at the coast.
http://www.depanne.be/frame.aspx?page=/Toerisme/English.aspx

The coast

There is something special about the Belgian coast, the North sea - the air, the waves, the wind, the skies....  I love nothing more than taking zillions of photographs there. I know that photographers, locals and even tourists complain about nature not being what it was, the built up areas along the dikes, the commercialization due to tourism, the masses of people .... 

This is no doubt true but I still love the ambience, and when I am there on a cold and windy day I can even have the place more or less to myself!

I would be happy to do nothing else than photograph the water and the ever changing skies but wonder whether viewers would find it of sustaining interest.

Nonetheless, I am planning on making the Belgian coast a regularly recurring theme and hope you will bear with me!