The beach was photographed on the same day by the same photographer
Click for a larger image Translation of the text on the sign:
WELCOME TO THE TERSCHELLINGER BEACH Stormy weather, late 19th century, Sil de beachcomber with his sons, Wietse and Jelle with horse and carriage: they have to go to the beach. Looking out for ships in distress, of course to help those on board, but also secretly hoping for cargo thrown overboard." That’s how their grandfathers did it and the grandfathers of their grandfathers.
Who does not know these images? Every year in the summer the film Sil de strandjutter is shown for bathers who are on holiday on Terschelling. And everyone enjoys these images and understands that as autumn approaches and the storms rage over the island, something starts to itch among the islanders. They have to go to the beach.....
That ancient, let’s call it instinct, still exists among the islanders. It is still teeming with islanders during northwesterly storms and ships in distress. Only.......times change. Horse and buggy have made way for Land Rovers and other four wheel drive cars. But as November approaches, the islanders are still itching. They have to go to the beach!
So you will encounter cars on the Terschellinger beach from November 1 to April 1. Islanders with jitters. Of course they have to take nature into account, of course they have to take into account all other beach users, of course they also have to adapt to the ever-increasing regulations from The Hague and Brussels.
BUT MOST OF ALL: THEY HAVE TO GO TO THE BEACH, FOR CENTURIES!