Lifeboat station

The village Egmond aan Zee houses one of the lifeboat stations of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Redding Maatschappij (abbreviated KNRM), the Royal Netherlands Sea Rescue Institution. The KNRM is a voluntary organisation tasked with saving lives at sea. Along the Dutch North Sea coast, the Wadden Sea and the IJsselmeer are 39 lifeboat stations in total. Yearly they have about 1700 distress calls.

The station in Egmond aan Zee exists since 1824. Currently they have 27 volunteers who are able to go out to sea with their lifeboat named 'Adriaan Hendrik'.

I'm linking to signs, signs.

Sand art

 We discovered Mickey..

.. and Minie on the North Sea beach near Egmond aan Zee, last Sunday. I like Minie's eye-lashes!

Foggy beach

This was yesterday afternoon on the beach near Egmond aan Zee, a village along the Dutch North Sea coast. A cloudy day with relatively still high temperatures, which caused this fog to emerge.

I´m linking to Seasons on St Germain´s blog.

Bicycle bells

Pretty bicycle bells for sale in a display window in Egmond aan Zee. I like the one with the cow best, which one do you like?

Have a nice Sunday!

Gejut

This parked bicycle in the village of Egmond aan Zee advertises with a sign that says 'GEJUT' (Dutch for 'combed from the beach') and 'Geschäft', which is the German word for 'shop'. GEJUT sells all kinds of things made from pieces of wood, rope, plastic etc. found on the beach, bringing each visitor -as they say- in closer contact to the sea.

Many signs in villages along the North Sea coast are bilingual by the way, responding to the many tourists that come here from Germany.

Linking to Lesley's signs, signs.

A kite surfer..

..who was just leaving the water of the North Sea.

Dangerous current

It's not safe everywhere along the North Sea coast.

Linking to signs, signs.

Lighthouse

Taken from the exact same spot as yesterday's photo, but with the sea behind me now.

(thanks Peter :) )

Main street

Egmond aan Zee, with the beach and the North Sea on the left.

Down to the beach

We enjoyed a mini-break at the North Sea coast this weekend. We had sun and some rain too, but the temperatures were really fine. Here is one of the 'entrances' from the dunes down to the beach, in Egmond aan Zee.