The Slufter On Texel, between the Muy and the Eierlandse Dunes lies the Slufter, the island's best-known nature reserve. It is a large salt marsh plain between two sand dykes. The special thing is that this salt marsh lies on the North Sea coast. Creeks with salt water flow right through the area. When it storms from the northwest, the area floods. Only plants that can tolerate salt water grow there. In summer, the plain is purple with flowering sea lavender. Most of the Slufter is closed off. Eider ducks and skylarks nest there.
We managed to close the Great Slufter and the Muy permanently. But yes, the Little Slufter got bigger and bigger and proved difficult to close. For a while it was closed in 1902 and 1910, but new breaches always made an opening to the sea again. In 1925, it was tried for the last time. Conservationists made sure it became a nature reserve after that. The southern part is freely accessible.
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