Mirjam Sophia Glessmer

Category: wave watching

On redirecting attention

July 22, 2025
Yesterday morning I went for my morning swim and then sat down at the beach afterwards and drank my coffee. I have been thinking a lot about the “turning the…
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#WaveWatching

January 1, 2025
/weɪv wɒtʃɪŋ/ noun #WaveWatching is the practice of observing water or other fluids, and trying to explain any movement. #WaveWatching is great for several reasons: It is a powerful way of…
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#WaveWatchingWednesday

October 2, 2024
Enjoy my collected wave watching pics of the last two or so weeks, including the first Swedish Nationals in Depth Freediving in a long time! :-)
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Sunday morning #WaveWatching

May 8, 2022
After spending a good chunk of yesterday afternoon transferring #WaveWatching pictures from my Instagram into a blog post here, and wondering why I did not bother to write better captions…
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#WaveWatching: Wind & sheltering

May 20, 2021
For my dear friends, who are worrying because I didn’t post any #WaveWatching pics recently: I’m still here, and I’m still wave watching! :) For example on my lunch time…
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Baby geese making waves <3

April 29, 2021
At the moment, I am doing almost daily trips to check up on the baby geese because they are just sooo cute! And growing up so quickly! Their waves are…
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All the things too investigate

April 23, 2021
Sometimes it’s not the prettiest wave watching pics that we can think about the most. Here, I really like how the petals that blew from the trees surrounding the lake…
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Rotating foam disk

April 22, 2021
So you thought exciting wave watching can only happen near the ocean? That is so not true! Last weekend, for example, I spotted the round foam patch just downstream of…
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Baby geese

April 21, 2021
These baby geese made me so happy on my run this morning! Even though they have to learn to swim a little faster and less messy for a nice wake…
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Birthday on the beach

May 24, 2020
After, at that point, more than two week of self-isolation in my flat with only my early morning walks away from the flat, and only runs with my friend J.…
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THE WAVE at Boot Düsseldorf

May 8, 2020
It seems insane that back in January I voluntarily spent time at the “Boot”, a water sports trade show in Düsseldorf with over 250.000 visitors. I was there doing ocean scicomm…
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WaveWatchingWednesday

March 18, 2020
Here is last week’s summary of my #WaveWatching Instagram @fascinocean_kiel. Social distancing in Kiel isn’t so bad… At least until I started to take it seriously enough to stay inside…
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#WaveWatchingWednesday

February 26, 2020
Welcome to the recap of my #WaveWatching Instagram @fascinocean_kiel! Starting off strong: My standard #KitchenOceanography overturning circulation experiment (recognize the tank & the cool pad?) put into a very different…
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#WaveWatchingWednesday

February 19, 2020
Another week, another #WaveWatchingWednesday! Here are my collected Instagram posts from my wave watching Insta @fascinocean_kiel. Even quick glimpses of water make me happy: #WaveWatching from the train! And even…
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#WaveWatchingWednesday

January 29, 2020
Another summary post of my wave watching Insta @fascinocean_kiel! Enjoy! What is going on in the picture below? Just from looking at the picture I could only guess, but luckily…
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Fløyen in the clouds

September 21, 2019
Yesterday, I went for a quick walk up Fløyen and really enjoyed it, despite the view being slightly different from what is usually shown on the postcards. Nice, some wake…
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Lake District #wavewatching

August 4, 2019
The first wave watching during our vacation in the Lake District (which I am only writing about now because I had to post about the amazing stuff at the coast first,…
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Playing with water

January 10, 2017
Sometimes playing with water is all you need to make you happy. Like on this gorgeous day last December at Möhne Reservoir, the largest artificial lake in western Germany: That…
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Help me name my book!

June 16, 2016
If you like my blog, you will LOVE my book. It’s an alternative travel guide: Instead of talking about sights you can see when you visit a city, I am talking…
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