Amber catching and bird watching on the shores of the Baltic Sea
The Lithuanian camp for participants of the Baltic Sea project was held on July 10 - 12. Therefore, the location of the port city Klaipėda and the Curonian Spit, was not chosen by accident. The camp began with a theoretical introduction to the values of protected areas , which was presented to us by Raimonda Ilgine, a junior researcher at Klaipėda University . Later we traveled to Karkle, where with amber fisherman Igor Osnach we learned how to distinguish real amber from artificial pieces, recognize inclusions, and just by looking at the sea, to tell if the waves would bring a lot of amber or not and to notice in which wave amber is hiding. On our way back we traveled five kilometers by foot, on our way to visit Holland's Cap, a WWII bunker, and of course looking for amber thrown down the coast. On the second day, we visited the protected areas that we discussed previously. We traveled through the Curonian spit national park cross-section. We visited the seacoast, th