the weather today seems a bit bored with all that sunshine over the weekend and decides to throw in some variation. a band of cloud is crossing rapidly overhead — but then, it would have been a surprise, if it had decided to take the local bus or to walk to cross the peninsula, wouldn’t it? lacking the agility of the clouds, we have to walk to wustrow, our first target of the day: included in the package deal we booked with the hotel we not only have very good breakfast and dinner, but also various “goodies”, such as a the loan of the two bone shakers (aka bikes), one-time entry to the amber museum in ribnitz-damgarten, and — a two hour trip on the darßer bodden, one of a system of interconnected lagoons stretching from ribnitz-damgarten to almost the polish stettin.
we reach reach wustrow by following firth the beach northwards and then the road peninsula-inwards and eastwards: the cobblestone road leads us past a series of villas dating back to the early decades of the last century and ends up at the main road that traverses the fischland-darß-zingst peninsula. turning right we go down towards the church and then left to get to the harbour…first we have to find (fight, almost) our way through a jungle of road construction sites, but finally we end up at wustrow harbour, the starting tour of our boat tour of the bodden.
first, though, lunch! after looking around we decide to buy a freshly caught and freshly smoked mackerel from the local fish-shack-cum-eating-area together with a mineralwater (with a grog for me afterwards): definitely the best mackerel ever (and inspite of the weather deciding that now is the time to have a little go at flushing the system)!
shortly before 2 o’clock we board the ms boddenkieker and are soon off on a tour of the darßer bodden — which, despite my initial doubts, turns out to be fairly interesting and we learn quite a bit about the flora and fauna of the bodden system (that and have another grog onboard 
while we were onboard the boddenkieker the sun had a quick shot across the water, but as soon as we alight it’s turning overcast and a bit too cold for comfort — which is just an elaborate lead in to the fact that we take the bus back to our hotel 
another fine day, not too hot
