Measuring Pole, Dutch Waddenzee Near Noordkaap Royalty-Free Stock Image

Measuring pole for measuring the tides, currents, wind speed and direction, temperature, pressure; placed after the last big storm, and very high water in 2008 in the Waddenzee. This sea is the largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats in the world. It is a large, temperate, relatively flat coastal wetland environment, formed by the intricate interactions between physical and biological factors that have given rise to a multitude of transitional habitats with tidal channels, sandy shoals, sea-grass meadows, mussel beds, sandbars, mudflats, salt marshes, estuaries, beaches and dunes.