Less than five minutes after casting off at the Elbeich in Hollern-Twielenfleth, the island is reached: a green stretch in the middle of the Elbe, a little over three kilometers long and only 550 meters wide. A red and white electricity pylon towers prominently there, which at 227 meters is the highest of its kind in Europe. There has been a nature reserve on this eastern corner of the island for decades, a number of bird species breed there, entry is prohibited there - as with other Elbe islands. But it is different on the western part of Lühesand, where you can still experience that Huckleberry Finn feeling of island seclusion in the middle of a large river: there are small huts and mobile homes for long-term campers and tourists, there are tent sites, and for a few years there has even been a mobile home site, and also 16 weekend houses and walking paths that connect everything. Much seems to have fallen out of time here