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Holger Torp (Holger) > 21. October 2008
Memories from the summer gone - tight lines.

Holger Torp (Holger) > 20. October 2008
We had a staff quality time in the company last friday. Blue team rocks - but not a sound in spite of a great effort!

Holger Torp (Holger) > Mårup Church, North Jotland, Denmark.
The small roman church from the 13. century is threatened to fall down from the steep coast. Yearly the sea cuts around 5-7m from the coast as erosion. On the churchs cemetery which is gave up in 1928 is among other dead a grave of the 226 seamen from the disaster of the english frigate The Crescent in 1808. This grave will be the first which will be flushing into the sea.
On The 25. August this year work was started taking the church down so it can be rebuilt on another location.

Holger Torp (Holger) > 17. October 2008
Rubjerg Knude Fyr
Rubjerg Knude is the high point of the long, steep cliff of Lønstrup Klint between Nørre Rubjerg and Lønstrup in Jotland, Denmark. Sand drift has ravaged the area since the end of the middle Ages, forcing the population out. At the same time, the cliff has nibbled its way inland. Both aspects are a dramatic testimony to the struggle between humans and nature in the area.

Rubjerg dune is a massive deposit of shifting sand that covers Rubjerg's almost vertical cliffs. Together, they are known as Rubjerg Knude (node); standing approximately 90 m tall, it is the highest point on the 13 km of coastal incline that constitutes Lønstrup Klint.

The cliff comprises meltwater deposits of sand and clay, compressed by the ice during the last Ice Age around 20,000 years ago. The dune is relatively young. It is only within the last few centuries that coastal erosion has released large quantities of sand from the cliff deposited on Rubjerg Knude by winds off the North Sea.

In the 16th and 17th centuries, the ravages of sand drift were so violent that the people living nearest the coast had to relocate their farms further inland. The huge quantities of sand buried everything without mercy. In the parish of Rubjerg, the church was left solitary, and as time went by it became ever more difficult to dig a path to the church door through the sand deposits. The church was abandoned in 1904.

To subdue the sand drift, the dunes were planted with lyme grass, which caused them to grow. More sand was released from the cliff, blew across and covered the planted areas, which were then replanted, and so on.

In 1900, Rubjerg Knude lighthouse was inaugurated with a 23-m tower on the highest point of the coastal incline; it was then a good 200 m inland. Its light could be seen from a distance of up to 42 km away and it benefited both international shipping and the local fishermen.

Over the years, sand drift caused the dunes to grow exponentially, with the result that ships close to the shore could no longer see the beam of the lighthouse. At the same time, coastal erosion brought the cliffs closer and closer to the lighthouse. In 1992, the struggle against sand drift and coastal erosion was abandoned entirely, and Rubjerg Knude lighthouse was left to the power of nature. Its light had been extinguished back in 1968. Buildings to the west are gradually being freed of sand west of the dune; here, it is only a short distance to the incline. They are expected to collapse onto the beach within the next 10-15 years.

Holger Torp (Holger) > 16. october 2008
More signs - this time flags on a fishing ship used to indicate lines and nets laid down in the sea

Holger Torp (Holger) > 15. October 2008
Ford still going strong

Holger Torp (Holger) > 14. October 2008
Walking the beach near Skagen in Denmark a while back I passed these glowes. I guess they where a sign indicating a trail through the sandy hills.

Holger Torp (Holger) > 13. October 2008
Out for a stroll yesterday with my granddaughter Ásta Margrét - it sure is getting cold.

15. October 2008
Ford still going strong

> 15. October 2008
Ford still going strong

15. October 2008
Ford still going strong

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