Panorama Photo

This is a 53% crop of my previous pano to show the seal colony (3°-10°) and the abundant number of seabirds on the lower sludge plates of the Hooge Platen, a bit better. If I counted well, there are 120 seals, which is much more than years ago when they talked about a colony of about 50 animals. There is a second, smaller seal colony of about 15 animals on the Walsoorden plate and sometimes I see a few swimming very close to the dike here in Terneuzen. The number of seabirds looking for food on the lower sludge plates is enornous. I only roughly estimate a hundred thousand although I think it is a lot more.

Between 77°-90° one can see a clear mirage as if the dike is floating in the air.

Canon Eos M6 with EF-M 18-150 mm, 35 p RAW, 122 mm (195.2 mm KB), iso 125, f 11, 1/250, PTGuiPro, 110630x3867 804.9MB TIFF, crop to h=1805, downsizing>1000>500 TIFF>sharpening>30646x500 2.5MB JPEG