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Leading through he Weerribben National Park - another wetland - this is one of the longer walks, but travelling back by bus means a wide detour over Steenwijk - and we decided to postpone this walk after we arrived in Giethoorn on the pervious leg, and waited to better times, so we could use our bikes the get back to our starting point.

A longer route, and therefore postponed to longer days.	The route on GoogleEarth	Free-standing Willowtree	Storck feeding on newly ploughed land	Getting airborn...
...and drifiting away...	Ash strating to spawn	Three-armed tree on the other side	The canal - the boundary between nature reserve and...	Tree on the edge
Wild bushes on low - very low - lands	Willows form cushions on the water's edge	The boundary inland.	Fowers of grass	Moorland woods, getting green
Open fields between the woods and water	Geese looking for a nesting site	Canal into the boglands	Nile goose	Just over the water level
THe edge of the nature reserve - floating lands	View over the lake	The town of Vollenhove, on high grounds	Most willows stay strong in the wind....	...garding over bundles of reed ...
...accompanied by a birch, full of witches' brooms: wild...	No doubt: this is a dairy farm	Bundles of reed drying	View from the brdige at Nieuw-Weteringe, on our way to...	....and looking passed the village, it's - once again -...
Young male sparrow at the restaurant	Young female as well. These sparrows came quite close.	Flowers at the riverbank	Full of brooms - looks like mistletoe but that doesn't...	Deer crossing the open fields (though yiu have to look...
Reeds between patches of woodland. Typical for the area	Long dyke, a canal on our left and low, aterly lands on...	Flat landscape, not that high over the water level....	...surrounded by even more water - lakes or canals...	...and where few trees offer a vertical dimension - at...
Dug-out, for new fileds of high-quality reed	Dam between the fields	Trees giving strength to these dams	Dry feet - but wet toes below the surface...	Storck's nest on the pole, raining the nest high over the...
Cutting patterns	Open stable - and some cirious cattle.	Artwork in the landscape. Van Gogh has painted here....	Doswit country!	A window onto open fields
Low shoulders along the canal into the bog	Trees on the shoulders keep them steady.	Kalenberg's Main Street.	Converted farm	The path out Kalenberg - this used to be a boggy path,...
At the dekoy - closed for the public except on excursions.	True - not clearly visible, but there is a path leading...	Lakes aside the path, and floating peat...	...hardly to be called "land"....	...even a hideout tips over
Geese looking for a nesting site	At the end of the path,where a real road crosses the...	...once housing peat-workers, now converted into holiday...	A medieval type of windmill, rebuild from scratch. This...	Former peat hole: where the peat has been taken out. Now,...
Tjasker - a minmal type of mill, used to drain peat-holes...	Walking the dyke...	...passing a narrow passage into the swamps...	...until the dyke lifts a bit more - and narrows...	...and ends into a canal - the path chicaning to the...
A small canal leading off the path	Twin trees on the dyke - on higher grounds...	A wider view of the lands of the Weerribben	A lake that slowly fills up - shallow enough to be...	Crossing the canal between Steenwijk and Ossenzijl - once...
Getting off the low grounds onthe the higher terrain, the...	Real woods near Oldemarkt: oak and beech.	Ploughed grounds	Window onto meadows and woodland	The path to Oldemarkt - that we did follow earlier on our...
Farm horses: the strong, working kind

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