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View on Overmere Donk at Blue hour on my 59th birthday

Thank you for your 'likes' for this 'blue hour shot', in which the full moon is very faintly visible during the early first quarter ... picture taken at Overmere Donk.

 

Where the Donkmeer and Berlare Broek are now located, thousands of years ago a meander of the Scheldt ran around a sand hill. Little by little, the course of the river changed, creating a horseshoe-shaped lake. Eventually the area dried up, leaving a layer of peat behind. The Donkmeer was only created in the late 18th and early 19th as a result of peat extraction. It flooded in the second half of the 19th century, to create this 'lake' ...

 

Inspired and translated from Wikipedia article on 'Donkmeer'

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Uploaded on February 14, 2024
Taken on February 12, 2024