15TH CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORK GROUP FOR PALAEOETHNOBOTANY
CONFERENCE EXCURSIONS, JUNE 5, 2010
Three one-day excursions are offered immediately following the conference on Saturday, June 5, 2010.
Excursion 1 is a trip to one of the barrier islands of the North Sea with a guided hiking tour at low tide through the barrier islands tidal flats. This excursion will provide an unique experience of the Wadden Sea, which is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Excurison 2 and 3 will be led by researchers of the Lower Saxony Institute for Historical Coastal Research, Wilhelmshaven (NIhK) and will highlight topics such as archaeology and Holocene landscape history of north-west Germany. More information about these excursions can be found below (please click on the map).
Registration for these excursions can be made by e-mail (nihk@nihk.de) and through payment of the appropriate amount together with the conference fee. Places are limited and registrations are handled on a strict first come, first served basis.
Excursion 1 - The East Frisian Coast: Trip to Spiekeroog on a traditional vessel plus hike through the tidal flats of Spiekeroog
Guided by Ralf Hensel and Friederike Bungenstock
Costs: 30.00 € p.p.
| The East Frisian Coast is famous for its wide tidal flats and the remote and pittoresque East Frisian barrier islands. We offer one excursion to experience this great landscape. This is the early bird excursion! We will meet at 6.15 am in Wilhelmshaven to go northwest to Neuharlingersiel, the port for the ships leaving for the most pittoresque of the East Frisian islands, Spiekeroog (www.spiekeroog.de). There, we will enter the traditional fishing vessel “Gorch Fock”. On our way to Spiekeroog we will throw out some fishing nets and see one of the sand bars, where seals are resting. Arriving on the island, we will make an about 2 hours hike through the tidal flats of Spiekeroog starting from the harbour through muddy tidal flats. After that, there will be enough time to take a rest at the beach, go for a swim in the North Sea, enjoying the pittoresque cafés of Spiekeroog or to study the dune vegetation before the “Gorch Fock” is leaving at 4:30 pm to bring you back to the mainland. We will be back in Wilhelmshaven at about 7 pm. |  |
General information about this tidal flat hike:
- The tidal flat excursion can be shortly cancelled due to weather conditions!
- You should feel and be fit and healthy at the day of the hike. Walking through the tidal flats is much more exhausting than a normal walk. Also, the very fresh and windy air is tiring.
Equipment:
- Old, but good and neat fitting sport shoes with laces. Velcro fastener won’t work in the mud. Please no sandals, trekking sandals, plastic bathing shoes etc.! No rubber boots, they will stick in the mud and being watered in the tidal channels. Do not walk bare foot because of the shell fields!
- Wear socks in the shoes otherwise the sand will extremely rub your feet
- Wear short trousers
- Warm jumper and jacket
- Rain jacket
- Suncream with a high sun protection factor (due to the reflecting water), maybe additionally a cap
- Something to drink and to eat
- Towel and dry shoes
- Plastic bags for the wet shoes after the hike
- A backpack is very useful
Further information, some pictures etc. can be found at www.wattwandern.de (in German)
Do not hesitate to ask if you have further questions! Please contact: Friederike Bungenstock, Tel.: +49 4421 915 142, bungenstock@nihk.de
Excursion 2 - Around the Jade Bay
Guided by Steffen Wolters, Dirk Enters, Felix Bittmann, Johannes Ey and Karl-Ernst Behre
Costs: 20.00 € p.p.
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Excursion 3 - The Elbe-Weser-Triangle
Guided by Annette Kramer, Imke Brandt, Iris Aufderhaar, Daniel Dübner, Daniel Nösler and Hauke Jöns
Costs: 20.00 € p.p.
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