Santiago aan het wad
The open Friesian landscape.
Sheep on a dyke.
The silty waters of the monks.
The photographs where taken for a project called "Santiago aan het wad".
It is the starting-point of the Dutch route to the pelgrimage route to La Compostella in Spain. It is called the Saint Jacob path
(Sint Japiks pad).
The first two photographs one encounters while walking through the landscape.
However, from the starting-point of the pelgrim's path, other routes of the monks have been developed. On the third photograph one is on the terrain of one of the largest monastery here in Friesland. "Clarus Campus". What is so special about this stretch of water? Here, the monks dug up the clay for their bricks to built the monastery. The ground-water which came up eventually was salty and still is after more than thousand years and heaven for birds.
