When is a tree ........

[goosey]

....... not a tree?
For the second time only I went to the Vogelmeer area of the National Park Zuid Kennemerland today. Last time, and today I saw in the far distance what looked like a monkey puzzle tree, perhaps a giant pine, I was that busy looking it at it through binoculars I didn't actually take a photo of it , I will next time!
Anyway, when I got home I was looking in my book about the NP and saw a photo of it, when I read on I discovered the tree is not a tree but a huge mobile phone transmitter! (Even through the binoculars it still loooked like a tree.)




In this photo you can see it on the horizon in the left half of the picture.

When I was stood at the far end of the lake later on, on the top of sand dune I could see it better, but it was still miles away.
What a good way to disguise a structure which would have ruined the look of the whole area, it had me fooled!

[goosey]

Here we are - I was able to get this image today. What actually looks like bushes below the "giant tree" are in fact full grown trees.

[paul m]

At least they're making an effort to blend in with the landscape. A monkey-puzzle is a bit far-fetched: perhaps it was mean to be a pine?
I wish some (all) of the aerial towers around here were disguised - in town or country.

[goosey]

I was on the zuidpier (the longer and southerly of 2 long piers (3km), in the form of pincers off the shore of Ijmuiden, which all the shipping coming into Ijmuiden and then up the Noordzeekanaal pass. I had walked to the end and on my way back and noticed the telephone mast in the distance.