During the summer of 1983, I rode my bike through western Europe between June 5 and early September. I recently digitized these images from the approximately 720 slides I took during the trip.
Dutch highway
The following pictures are from my passage through Amsterdam in early August. I was riding from the Rhine valley in Germany to Dunkirk, in France, on the English Channel, in order to catch a ferry to England.
On our first extensive patrol since winter’s demise to the far bog where the latest beaver colony resides, we found many trees being worked on. The den near the snowmobile trail has fresh stripped wood piled on it and scattered around it.
There are small stumps with no trunk left and numerous large trees that have been felled and the trunks remain.
One of the most impressive is a large diameter tree that is only half-way chewed (at right).
