Just for fun I created a gallery of the region. http://www.repiuk.nl/strijperaa/
Toine On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Bob W <p...@web-options.com> wrote: >> 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. > -- 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.
