> It's the official cartographic start of a small river (a stream, creek > or brook I don't know the difference) in dutch "beek".
The cognate English word is probably 'beck'. Whether something is called a stream, creek, brook, beck or whatever else is available is probably a geohistoricolinguistic accident. I think they all mean the same thing. It's a very interesting set of pictures and I can understand the appeal of the location. One of my favourite parts of Britain is the North Kent Marshes - salt marsh at the estuary of the Thames - also very flat. Particularly bleak and appealing in winter. Bob > Thanks for all your nice comments. Some wondered where and > what this is: > It's the official cartographic start of a small river (a stream, creek > or brook I don't know the difference) in dutch "beek". The whole > region is called a "beekdal" or stream valley. > > http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.311757,5.536637&spn=0.01 > 9931,0.0315&z=15 > > Since this is the netherlands everything is flat and a valley is only > a few meters difference. The region isn't even a proper "wetland" they > installed small water gates to keep the water level in the area high > enough for a wetland. > Most of the dutch nature is mixed with farmland and worse with lots of > cattle and pig breeding, The pig population outnumbers the human > population. The resulting manure is used to fertilize the land, since > the soil is mainly sand the manure seeps through. > What you see is the smelly result captured by the water gate. > > The good news is I like these pictures and the forest and wetland > surrounding this smelly water gate is my favorite foraging spot. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
