Lakolk beach
A vast sand plain.
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Rømø is a Danish island in the Wadden Sea, the southernmost of Denmark's Wadden Sea islands, part of Tønder Municipality and about 27 km in a straight line south-west of Ribe. It covers about 129 square kilometres, is home to only a few hundred people, and is linked to the mainland by a road along a long causeway. Its best-known sight is Lakolk beach on the west coast, a vast, flat plain of sand stretching hundreds of metres to the water's edge. Cars are allowed to drive and park on parts of it, so visitors can drive almost to the sea. Dunes and salt marshes covered in grasses cover much of the island. The island lies in the Wadden Sea, whose Danish part is protected as a national park and which is also a World Heritage Site, famous for migrating birds and wide tidal flats. The Kommandørgård museum, an 18th-century house of a whaling captain, displays old whaling tools. From Havneby harbour in the south, a ferry runs to the nearby German island of Sylt. The beach is free, and it is usually windy, making it a well-known spot for kite sports and land sailing on the sand.
A vast sand plain.
And salt marshes.
To Germany.
Rømø, Tønder Municipality, Denmark
Yes, on marked parts of it.
By car over the causeway from the mainland.