About 28 million cubic yards of sand - enough to fill the Mercedes-Benz Superdome six times - was dredged from the seafloor and piped here, forming a lagoon and pushing the beach about a half-mile into the North Sea. The Dutch government made this stretch of coast a magnet for kiteboarders and other beachgoers a few years ago when it dropped off an immense pile of sand. “I have to come two, three times a week.” “It’s addictive,” Vijverberg says, emerging from the water with a red face and the sniffles. Nearby, other kiteboarders catch gusts strong enough to fling their wetsuited bodies several feet into the air. TER HEIJDE, The Netherlands - With a surfboard strapped to his feet and the reins of a giant kite in his hands, Daan Vijverberg skims over whitecaps on the Netherlands’ windy south coast. This is the second installment of a Times-Picayune and Advocate series exploring how the Netherlands’ climate change adaptation strategies could be a model for the Louisiana coast.
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