I didn't go far for a walk today.
After buying some groceries in the local supermarket, I drove to the gas station just outside the town, filled the tank ...
... and parked my car a kilometer further, by the road that leads to some neighboring seaside villages.
Across the road from where I parked ...
... near the power cabinet by the narrow unpaved road that leads to some recently finished apartment buildings ...
... there was an interesting little Halloween prop made of something that looked like one of those small gas cylinders made for camping equipment. I approached the thing, took a few shots, said - Have a great Wednesday to the little smiling skull ...
... and, when all the cars have passed, I crossed the road again to go back where I parked.
From there, I continued walking along the gravel road that leads to the sea. Not far from my car, just about ten or twenty meters further, there was this sign that signals the presence of a Fire station somewhere down the road. I was aware of its existence, but since I haven't walked this road for at least a couple of decades and that building was built in the last five years or so, I never saw it.
This rustling nylon bag that looked a bit like some jellyfish, ended up caught by the thorny shrubs on the other side of that narrow road.
Here you can take a good look at the snake-like road in front of me.
I found a handful of fallen leaves ...
... in the juicy green grass by the road ...
... and a bit further, right in the middle of the road ...
... there was this mysterious little circle. I don't know what is this. A piece of some extraterrestrial machinery, perhaps?
Here you can see some relatively distant transmitters mounted on a small hill.
Soon I found a flower ...
... that grew on the narrow belt of the grass-covered train in between the shrubs and the road.
I don't know what plant is this. It looks like some wild carnation or carnation-related species.
While I was sitting by the dusty road, busy photographing the aforementioned flower, a pickup truck was approaching from the coastal end of the road. I took this shot and continued my walk ...
... that brought me to this yellow bottle cap, forty or fifty meters further. Now it's dusty and contorted, but this was the top part of a nice bottle of beer once. JELEN is the name of that brand of beer. Never heard about it. JELEN in my language means DEER. You know, that well-known horned animal that is called Bambi in its tender age. The writing under the name states that this is a pale ale kind of beer. After taking this photograph, when I looked up towards the more distant scenery ...
... I noticed a pretty large building that looked like some kind of factory.
I saw a long inscription on its facade when I zoomed in. VATROGASNI DOM - DVD MEDULIN, states the writing on the wall. VATROGASNI DOM means FIRE STATION. DVD doesn't mean DIGITAL VIDEO DISC. It means DOBROVOLJNO VATROGASNO DRUŠTVO, which, when translated in English means VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. MEDULIN is the name of my hometown.
In this photograph, I caught a man on his way towards Medulin.
About a hundred meters further the road turned towards the town ...
... so I continued along the very narrow path ...
... that ends in the nearby bay.
The path was bordered by a dense growth of various Mediterranean shrubs.
I found even some more typically autumnal leaves ...
... among this prevalently evergreen vegetation.
I can't tell you the name of this plant. Not because it's a secret that I don't wanna share. It's because I don't know it.
The leaves turn yellow in autumn, but I noticed that often the plant doesn't lose all its foliage.
On this twig, the leaves are slightly greener.
When I reached the seashore ...
... the smoke was on the water, but there was no fire in the sky.
Someone was burning the surplus vegetation in the backyard.
Here I zoomed on the seagulls. The birds looked pretty cool in that smokey atmosphere.
The smoke was constantly changing the scenery ...
... so I took quite a few shots.
Here you can see yet another seagull ...
... and in this heavily cropped image, you can take a look at the man who was controlling the smoke and fire.
This small islet surrounded by shallow water is called Mishnjak.
Many buoys were floating not far from the island. These buoys are holding clusters of shellfish. Mussels and oysters.
Here you can see a seagull that landed to rest on one of those buoys.
These lovely red buoys were floating close to the shore.
They are used for boat mooring. After taking these shots ...
... I took a look at the rocks before my feet and found an interesting fragment ...
... with a fossilized shell in it.
Here you can see the relatively narrow sea passage that leads in deeper waters outside the bay.
This small floating shack surrounded by buoys ...
... is the central part of the only shellfish farm in this part of the bay.
Here you can take a look at some pine trees further along the shore.
This is a small pier that looks a bit like a bow of some old ship directed towards the islet called Mishnjak. MISH in my language means THE MOUSE. So that name has something to do with mice. You can translate it like a MOUSE PLACE or PLACE WITH MICE. And in fact, when I was camping and partying there with friends, as a kid and teenager, we always encountered plenty of rats at night. During the day they are well hidden.
Here you can see another small pier. I like these makeshift constructions very much. Each one is different, and they look cool in the landscape.
Here you can see the same pines that I already showed you a couple of photographs ago but in this enlargeable shot, you can take a better look at the machinery on the top of the relatively distant hill behind the trees.
That hill is made mostly of garbage. It is the largest landfill site in the area.
Here you can see a dandelion and some daisies near the small path, not far from the shore.
In this shot, you can take a better, more up-close look at those flowers. The following photograph ...
... was taken on my way back to the car.
I passed by this colorful mix of deciduous and evergreen shrubs ...
... and soon stopped by the green wall made of rosemary.
This aromatic plant was in bloom.
Although the nights are pretty cold these days, the weather around noon is warm and sunny, so I saw a couple of Cabbage white butterflies around the flowers.
It's always great to see a butterfly at this time of the year when Santa Claus and all this Christmas stuff are only a month away. Swarms of white butterflies could be a good alternative for snowflakes that never fall in this area at Christmas. A bit of snow can fall every decade or so at the end of January or in February.
I found also this colorful bug from the Spilostethus genus of the Lygaeidae family. Probably the Spilostethus pandurus, but I'm not completely sure about the exact species.
The Podarcis muralis wall lizard was sunbathing on the low wall underneath the rosemary barrier.
After some more walking, when I left those insects and lizards, I came across this small plant with beautiful red leaves.
A bit further, across the gravel road, I saw a different kind of plant with some partially dried-out leaves of the same color, surrounded by plenty of green foliage from the same shrub.
When I saw this wall lizard ...
... that found a nice sunbathing platform on some rusted piece of metal garbage ...
... I wasn't very far from the car. Soon, I drove back home.
Hope you enjoyed this walk through the surroundings of Medulin, my hometown. As always in these posts on HIVE, the photographs are my work - THE END.