Annaschnitfink's Fotothing

Holland - IJmuiden - Heerenduinweg
Only in winter time - when the trees and shrubs still do not bear leaves - you can see this small bridge. There is no water any more under neath...
The Kennemer dunes are straight behind this little bridge. The city of IJmuiden is only as old as the North Sea Channel is. The channel, which caused the existence of IJmuiden, was finished in 1876 giving Amsterdam a short and reliable way towards the North Sea, also for larger seaships. Velsen is the original and old city name for this area. The dunes and the forests of oaks, birches and beech trees belonged to the hunting grounds of the great Estates where the rich and wealthy people who had their business affairs in Amsterdam and Haarlem had their mansions built. Most of these mansions disappeared meanwhile.
My imagination tells me that may be this small bridge once offered a nice, elegant and dry way to cross a brooklet winding itself through the dunes...