Back in July this year, I drove to a random location on our northern Estonian coast. From Google Maps I noticed a point of interest for me. A small portion of sandy land that looks a bit out of place. That made me curious to go and see this spot in person. My geologic mind told me pretty quickly that this piece of land has not always been there. So I searched for historic satellite photographs and found this.
This is a historic satellite photo from 2013 in Google Earth.
Now notice the drastic difference on the photo here. This is a satellite photo from 2023. I circled the patch of new land in blue. This is my point of interest here.
Over the years the sea currents had piled up a lot of sand in this particular area and have created a new landmass that did not exist 10 years ago. So lets go and check this out in person, shall we?
I had to find my way to the beach throuch the forest. When I finally arrived, this was my scenery.
I had a bit of walking to do, to make it to the new patch of land. While we usually have some wind at the seaside. At the time, there was a total lack of any wind. It was so calm and quiet. You can see that the sea is a mirror, indicating no wind.
Mosquitoes bothered me quite a lot, and I had to put on long sleeves because of that. Otherwise, it was very warm outside. We had some heatwaves going on at the time in July.
I finally arrived to the spot which I marked in blue on the satellite photo you saw earlier. These were my views over there. It was strange to thik that this sandy peninsula was not here. I would have been standing in the sea 10 years ago.
It was absolutely beautiful in there. Like a little paradise, a few know to go to. There was more greenery than I thought there would be. The most recent satellite photo showed me just sand. The satellite photo might have been taken out of the green season or the plants might not have had the time to start growing there at all yet, in 2023. It was now 2025, so 2 years after the most recent satellite photo. 2 years is definitely enough time to change the new land again.
I saw the pink colored beach there. This is some kind of algae in the water or in the seaweed that makes this color.
Here are some more incredibly scenic views on this peninsula. I spent about 45 minutes sitting there. Taking some photos and watching the sunset on the sand.
A flock of some birds flying away from a tree. There are thousands of those small birds in this flock. Amazing!
When the sun was starting to go near the horizon, I decided to start moving back. To prevent walking in the forest darkness after the sun has long gone. I took these couple of shots of the sunset just before I was leaving the beach.
Of course, the coastlines are ever-evolving and changing all the time. In this case, the change and birth of this small peninsula was very fast. I'm sure that in 10 years it will look totally different. Maybe a much longer peninsula I can walk on. I will surely go back there at some point in the future and see what has changed.
The pin on the default Pinmapple map is in the water for this exact location haha.
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