Texel (to be pronounced as Tessle or Tessel)

As I said earlier, we visited Texel today and it was great! The weather was great, the island was great and we did some fun stuff which you wouldn't do someplace else.

We started with a trip to the Jutters Museum , where all things found on the beach are put together as a collection. Their objects are found by beachcombers before any officials collect them and sell or destroy the findings. Beachcombing is illegal, but somewhat allowed on Texel and seen as a sport or hobby.
The museum consists of a few buildings, packed from top to bottom with everything that's washed ashore. So lots and lots of plastic jerrycans, workinggloves, bouy's and driftwood, but also medicine, containers full of cars or tv's and even drugs.

Buoy ahoy!

Next we went along on a garnalenkotter for some shrimpfishing a little out of the coastline of Texel at de Waddenzee, which is anything between 30 and 2 meters deep. At low tide the water even washes away so you can actually walk from one to another island. I'd love to do that sometime, but unfortunately our day was full enough the way it was, so no wadlopen for us!

After an hour or so on the boat, the wind really took up, so this is me trying to see anything with both wind and sun directly at me.

But we did catch some shrimps and got some home in a bag, which we do need to peel first. It's a push-twist-pull movement, but these things are tiny and slippery!

In Den Burg, the island's "capital" I found this store that sold, how great, some discontinued Schoeller Yarn. It's Elfin (Ravelry link), an 90% acrylic and 10% mohair blend. I got two purple skeins and two brown ones, for just 15 dollars!
There were some other store which do sell yarn made from Texelanian (?) sheep, but it was kinda tough, so no wool from Texel for me.

I'd like to close this post with a cute photo on which Millie practices her "I'm so not paying attention to you" look.


Have a lovely day!