25.8. - Büsum - Day 2

Do you want to significantly lower the average age of traveling couples without children? Go to Büsum.

Do you want to eat amazing, fresh fish and North Sea shrimps? Go to Büsum.

Are you interested in a fantastic guided mudflat hiking tour? You can find it in Büsum.

You can see it already; it's ambivalent again. As a person socialized with vacations at the Mediterranean, the North Sea was never my sea. But it has something, especially the Wadden Sea.

Guided mudflat hiking tour to Scholl-Loch

Katja had the idea. If we are already in the north, she also wants to go on a mudflat hiking tour. Completely unplanned, we had incredible luck to participate in the last major mudflat hiking tour of 2019 in fantastic weather - 29 degrees and practically no wind.

The tour was led by Bodo Spreu. If it's about the mudflats, only with Bodo.

Differentiation is made between mudflats and sandflats. In the mudflats, you can potentially sink deep.

The upper layer of the mudflats consists of diatoms. Many inhabitants of the mudflats, especially the mussels, feed on them.

Beneath that is the so-called clay soil. Above all, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychaete lives in it.

Other inhabitants of the Wadden Sea that were mentioned:

The bird knot, barnacle, lugworm, bank lugworm,

common shrimp, tern, brent goose (moults in the mudflats in summer), black-headed gull, edible mussel (related to Vongole verace),

geoduck clam (introduced from the Pacific), harbour porpoise,

Pacific oysters (available up to shoe size 42, displaces native oysters and mussels)

We usually cook ourselves because we can. But as a conclusion, we went to eat Büsum specialties.