KAP session with Ramon (Kappix), who's already high in the air with his PFK.
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The Netherlands-Bakkum-Noord
What looks like an ordinary road -between Bakkum-Noord and Limmen- is in fact probably the oldest dyke in the province North-Holland, north of the North Sea Canal. It dates from the second half of the 11th centrury, or perhaps the beginning of the 12th century. It was constructed by order of the Egmond abbey. But it did not stop the flooding in this area; a former beach plain.
Image made with kite and camera, attached to the kite's line. © Tom Kisjes
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The Netherlands - Volendam
An early morning visit to Volendam harbour, where the replica of Halve Maen (Half Moon), is temporary docked. Halve Maen was commissioned by the VOC Chamber of Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic to covertly find a western passage to China. The ship was captained by Henry Hudson, an Englishman in service of the Dutch Republic. In 1609 Halve Maen sailed from Amsterdam to the Arctic, turning southwest to traverse the Atlantic Ocean to North America, then sailed from Newfoundland to the south in search of the northwest passage. Via Chesapeake Bay the ship went northward along the coast, navigating first the Delaware Bay and, subsequently, the bay of the river which Hudson named the Mauritius River, for Holland's Lord-Lieutenant Maurits. Halve Maen sailed up Hudson's river as far as the present day location of Albany, New York, where the crew determined the water was too narrow and too shallow for further progress. Concluding then that the river was also not a passage to the west, Hudson named the natives that dwelled on either side of the Mauritius estuary the Manahata. Leaving the estuary, Halve Maen sailed north-eastward again and crossed the Atlantic to reach England where it docked in Dartmouth harbour.
In 1618 the ship was destroyed during an English attack on Jakarta in the Dutch East Indies.
In 1909 The Netherlands presented the United States with a replica of Halve Maen to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Hudson's voyage. The replica was destroyed in a fire in 1934. Fifty years later, the New Netherland Museum commissioned a second replica.
Image made with kite and camera (attached to the kite's line). © Tom Kisjes
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Image made during a session with kite and camera above the pitoresque village Schermerhorn (Netherlands, North-Holland).
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The Netherlands-Hobrede
On this evening in May the so called Golden hour lasted half an hour. Enough to lift my kite, with the camera attached to the kite's line, and to make some images of the small village Hobrede (170 residents). Hobrede is situated in polder Zeevang, a nature reserve with a rich avifauna, north of Purmerend (to be seen in the background). A draining canal between two dykes seperates Hobrede from the former lake Beemster, drained and reclaimed in 1612. The name Hobrede seems to be derived from the word "hoofdbreedte" that refers to yesteryears duty of landowners to maintain their adjacent part of the dyke. © Tom Kisjes
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