... I did not forget about one other great trip last year! I had the chance to join my croatian friend Boris (a huge thanks btw ;-) ) on his field work for the project on mapping the croatian herpetofauna. For one week we were looking quite intensly (well, he a bit more, i had a little more nap-breaks in between, once i fell asleep during the process of getting out of the car..), at least 8 hrs per day, in the field for reptiles and amphibians. As it proofed once again, going with him in the field usually includes some nice surprises regarding the herpetofauna. Last year.. damn, two years ago! ... it was dozends of snakes on Olib, and now again, a more or less new specimen-record for me. This time it was the nose-horned viper, of which we found approx. 50 indivuduals in one week! (..could anyone maybe tell me, if i used the right tenses in the last few sentences?)
Lika (the region of croatia we have visited) is really amazing, and very much in contrast to what one usually has in mind about croatia. It's a hilly to mountainous area with some flatlands in between, and, unlike the seaside, completely green.
So if you like to do some easy hiking and relaxing far away from any touristic stuff, Lika seems like a great place for that. Uh, and it's also worth looking for mushrooms there.
Unfortunately I didn't take much landscape shots, so I can more or less only present some in-situ pics of vipers and other critters... like usual...
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Did I already mention that all pics were shot in-situ? Even the trees and flowers!
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Aaaand, at last, the obligatory music tip, this time more random: Nils Frahm, ...uh, wrong link, that was Warpaint..., but here's Nils now, then Orenda Fink, Veruca Salt (damn, that reminds me, that school has been a loongtime ago) and the last one cause I recently started watching Buffy (which is completely new to me): Far ..actually a really cool song, if you like the Tool-Deftoneish-Type of Music.
Bokić i laku noć!