Category: Natuur

Discover Julianadorp from the water with a canoe from the campsite

Quiet family beach, accessible via a nice walking or cycling route

Get in and discover Den Helder from the water with a canoe or SUP

Peace, space and birds: discover this quiet beach in the middle of nature

Quiet, spacious beach with a view of bulb fields in the spring

De Donkere Duinen is een aangeplant dennenbos. Landschap Noord-Holland zorgt door middel van beheers-ingrepen dat het wordt omgevormd naar een afwisselend, natuurlijker bos.

Nowhere in North Holland is bird life as rich as on Balgzand. The land here is wide and beautiful. From a number of points on the sea dyke you have a beautiful view of the mudflats. A good point to look at is ’t Kuitje Information Centre on the Oostoeverweg in Den Helder. Note the tides, for with rising water the thousands of birds fly in large swirling clouds towards the dike to spend time there.

The Balgzandpolder is entirely designed for birds. You always see birds here resting or looking for food. At high tide in the Wadden Sea there are extra birds to be seen here. They can often be admired from a short distance via a viewing screen. Birds that you can see, for example, are spoonbills, many species of ducks, large groups of oystercatchers and redshanks and amongst them rarer birds such as spotted redshanks and greenshanks.

These dunes are formed from the remains of the old Wadden island Huisduinen. South of this are the Donkere Duinen. These originated from the small Wadden island of Ooghduinen. The gap between the two islands closed in the 16th century. The Harmplas dune lake is now located here.

Spacious, clean and easily accessible: this beach has everything you are looking for

The park is located directly at the foot of the unique dune area, only 1 km from the clean wide sandy beach. There are 166 detached stone bungalows. Each bungalow has a large enclosed garden with a terrace on the south and west. In this park too, all bungalows are private property, so all bungalows have different furnishings. The central parking spaces are located near the bungalows. Booking: GREAT-Vakantiehuizen, www.greatvakantiehuizen.nl Lekker Naar Zee, www.lekkernaarzee.nl Callinghe, www.callingheverhuur.nl Vakantiewoningenaandekust, www.vakantiewoningenaandekust.nl

Wildrijk nature reserve Sint Maartenszee is a very special forest. Good for a walk of less than an hour, especially in the spring. The bottom is covered as far as you can see with a blue carpet of wild hyacinths.