I didn't quite get up nearly so early as I did in Sweden, But I left Delft about 6 AM and got to Maasvlakte in the dark. Just in time to miss the tunnel closures around Rotterdam because of a nerve gas and bomb threat. I was oblivious since I couldn't understand the radio either. I went and found vuurtorens.

This is a rather modern one, getting erected in 1974. It is very tall at 62 meters high. Its very bright, white light flashes 5 times every 20 seconds and is visible about 28 nautical miles out. The area it is located in is quite the industrial scene and rather ugly. I figure they have to make the towers so tall because they don't really put them on the dikes. They are built down on the flats, which are below sea level. As I recall, only Breskens is outside of the dike, on the beach.

I did have one very satisfying moment though. While I waited for daylight, I went up on the dike and looked at across the darkness and counted three lights flashing which I figured out to be Ouddorp, Haamstede, and one of the Belgian lights. If you stood just right you could get all three in your periphery vision and in about 5 minutes, all three flashed at the same time. By the time I got down to Ouddorp, it was no longer flashing. Neither was Haamstede.

Here's how I saw it:
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