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High Tide

Sunday January 8th - Nijmegen - In this very early Spring the floodplains of the rivers Waal en Rhine are flooded. The Rhine at Lobith (the Netherlands) stands now at 12.72 meters. It's expected to increase to 14.50 meters on Tuesday January 10th. A month ago, in early December, the Rhine and Waal had a record low with a state under 7 meters!

One of the floodplains that has been flooded is an area called the "Gelderse Poort". This was and is necessary in the context of safety and river relief. As water is a major driving force behind the creation of the river Waal's landscape and it's embankment, the Gelderse Poort has space for a water mass of roughly 150.000 m3. Currently this capacity is almost reached. With still more water coming in (rain and from the Rhine) its expect to overflow in the next two days.

The Gelderse Poort is a young cross-border nature reserve in the Netherlands and Germany, situated south of city of Nijmegen (Nimwegen), on the banks of the river Waal. The reserve is called after the spot where the Rhine crosses a lateral moraine, which has formed during the last glacial period (aka ice age... No(!), the real one and not from Fox Animation of Hollywood) some 10.000 years ago during last 'years' of the Pleistocene. This is actually the beginning of the Rhine delta in The Netherland. The entire area covers 20,000 ha of which about half is located in Germany.

Technical stuff
This is a 18 shot pano (see my earlier posting: as part of my experiment with distortion). Merge by PS and some manual corrections. I use Photomatix for the HDR-conversion.

Credits
I want to thank my good friends SchulteSchultz for fine day together and C for your wonderful hike ...rain, wind and some sundrops included ;-)

Taken in: Nederland / Gelderland / Lent (show map)

Taken on: January 8, 2012

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