Harriersand

Another sunday-another excursion. This time we went to "Harriersand". It is an island in the middle of the river "Weser". We went there to do some hiking or maybe relaxing at the beach...but the scene was a bit disappointing. One narrow road of 11 kilometres length with no possibilities to turn left or right. And the "beach" was a 5 metres wide beach, with fine white sand but with a view to the harbour and indsutrial area of the city of "Brake". Not really a place where I would like to spend more than half an hour maybe. But there were a lot of visitors there, mainly bicyclists and motorbikers.

The official info:
The island Harriersand is with its length of eleven kilometre Europe's longest river island. In the past Harriersand consisted of seven islands, which were in the course of the Weser correction and deepening through bank undercutting to one island united. With the Lower Saxony area and administration reform the 600 hectare big island became part of the community Schwanewede on the 01.03.1974.

Little holiday cottages with beach view are available for rent. On a lovely evening walk along the beach around the island one can admire the brightly illuminated neighbouring town of Brake and then enjoy a rest at the restaurant. It is also possible during the summer holidays to take the little pedestrian ferry to Brake.

The Weser's "right sidearm" is home to a little natural harbour, which is exposed to the tides so that ships have ground contact during low tide.