Seal Rescue Center Lauwersoog

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Today, we were finally set to head to the Netherlands. But not too far, after a 2-hour drive we had already reached our destination: Lauwersoog. Because today we had something special planned again.

Ines had noticed that there was a seal rescue center here, and feeding with commentary happened at 3:00 PM. So we arrived in time to first explore the entire information center and then at the end, see the treatment and feeding. Each of these about fifty little seals had a story of suffering, and here in the seal hospital they were being nursed back to health, to be released into the wild after about three months.

It was unbelievably adorable.

At the end of the day, we still had time to see the R.J. Clevering Lock. This is part of a large dam project that transformed the former Lauwer Sea into the Lauwersmeer in 1969 by cutting off the water from the North Sea and thereby protecting against storm surges.