Rømø - Tvismark Plantage Walk

Today we got up and set off to explore Rømø Island in Wadden Sea National park which is all the mud flats! We stopped on the way in to the island in the mud flats on that side and they went on forever! It was 8.5km from where they started to the island! It was pretty cool. We walked down to the mud and it was not as squishy as I thought it would be (at least not near the edge). You didn’t really sink! There were rocks along the edge and it looked like there was sand on them, but they were really teeny tiny shells!

After that we headed in to walk to Tvismark Plantage which is a small area and had 15 of the 50 bunkers that were on this island in WWII! It also has the highest point on the island (19m - it’s the hill to the right of the path in the 12th photo - just after the first frog). We saw a few of the bunkers and from the highest point you could see the water (the two photos after the pine trees close ups) so that was nice. The next photo of the trees if you look closely there are so many right or almost right angles on the branches which was odd!

There were also so many caterpillars! The first one my app said is a Swan Moth, the Second an Oak Eggar, the third (he was all black on the back) a garden tiger! Then the frogs were a Moor frog and a European toad! All the animals! Really the Oak Eggars loved the one plant and were all over them!

This was a very easy walk, but super nice! It was windy and mostly overcast so not too warm which was perfect!Read more