Yesterday was a surprisingly warm day. The sun was shining from dawn to dusk, so I took a walk by the sea around three in the afternoon.
I drove a litlle less than ten kilometers to the beach situated between the villages of Pomer and Premantura. These are all parts of the bay of Medulin, a fairly large, shallow bay that shares its name with my hometown, Medulin.
Here you can see a small fragment of the beach and a bit of the larger scenery. If you have time to explore all the litlle details in the picture, you may notice two church towers on the horizon. That's the Church of St. Agnes, the biggest church in Medulin. Yep, my hometown is just across the bay. A litlle boat wouldn't have to travel as many kilometers as a car to get there.
These are the pebbles on the beach. They were brought here to make a beach out of a muddy stretch of coastline.
This is one of the snails I photographed yesterday. The scientific name of the species is Phorcus turbinatus.
Phorcus turbinatus, shown in this photograph, is considerably smaller. These snails are very common in the bay's intertidal zone. They prefer rocky habitats where they can hide in the cavities of the coastal rocks or under smaller stones and pebbles when the tide is low.
As I photographed the snails...
...the tide was slowly rising. In these four photographs, you can see a Phorcus turbinatus getting submerged.
This shot shows some people fishing on another beach, a beach situated on the other side of the pretty large inlet. I mean, some inlets are like smaller bays inside the bay of Medulin. I had to zoom in a lot to get this photograph.
The weather was great for recreational fishing and similar seaside activities. The buildings in the background of this shot belong to the village of Pomer.
Here you can see a yellow pebble that stood out from the rest.
The foreground of this shot shows the saltmarsh vegetation that grows very close to the sea and gets partially submerged when the tide is higher than usual or when the waves are bigger.
The showy plant with vivid red stems covered with juicy green leaves is Soda inermis, commonly known as the opposite-leaved saltwort.
Today, while searching for information to enrich the post, I learned that this plant has great historical importance as a source of soda ash, which is extracted from the ashes of Soda inermis and other saltwort plants. Soda ash is one of the alkali substances crucial in glassmaking and soapmaking.
These yellow flowers belong to Diplotaxis tenuifolia.
Diplotaxis tenuifolia is commonly known as the perennial wall-rocket.
I photographed this plant on the lawn just a few meters from the coastal rocks.
A bit later on one of its flowers...
...I photographed this colorful shield bug. The scientific name of the species is Eurydema ornata. It belongs to the Pentatomidae family, of course.
And that's it. The post ends here. As always on Hive, the photographs are my work.