My today's Wednesday Walk was split in two halves by the midday siesta and the lunch ...
... In the morning ...
... I was walking along the sea ... in the bay, here in Medulin, my hometown ... and later, in the late afternoon ...
... I was on the hill with a great view, on the opposite end of the same small town in which I live.
The weather was nice and sunny, the wind was just a gentle breeze when I took the first photograph ...
... down in the port, on the main fishing dock, a few hundred meters downhill from my house.
Here I met my HIVE and real life friend 
... with plenty of fish for sale, eat and offer gratis to my cats ...
... one little seabed shark from the Scyliorhinus canicula species was somehow still alive ...
... and he decided to give it a chance to continue the life in bay ...
... the fish fell in the water and swam away. This species lives in muddy habitats from very shallow coastal waters to the depths of 400 meters, so this isn't a bad place for that kind of fish.
The water on the other side of the dock ...
... was covered by a layer of pollen brought by the wind from the tops of the surrounding pine trees ...
... and the constant circulation of the sea inside the bay ...
... was creating complex shifting artworks with that pollen ...
... some very beautiful and memorable abstractions.
When I left the dock ...
... I continued along the muddy shore ...
... in search for treasures to put on photograph ...
... lovely stuff like these empty clams ...
... of two different kinds ...
... some very common coastal sea snails waiting for the change of the tide ...
... and the empty shell of a land snail species that also somehow ended here.
I found also this, much bigger, Hexaplex trunculus sea snail ...
... and another small coastal species of the Littorinidae Family. After this shot ...
... I passed by some agave ...
... and this abandoned little house ... with a plastic bucket caught in the intricate structure made by the climbing plants above its yard ...
... this thing is here for years now, and I'm glad for that, it's a great looking, memorable little detail.
After about two hundred meters with no photograph taken ...
... I arrived at the other side of the bay divided by the long, narrow peninsula in its middle.
... here I met another friend ...
... and found traces of pine pollen again ... but this time the artwork wasn't on the water, it was created on the sand, and it looked quite differently.
I took a few shots of the overall low tide atmosphere ...
... and spied on some perfect strangers that were enjoying their free time on the sunny beach.
After this shot I went home to eat something, to take a rest and prepare at least some of the photographs for this post.
This enlargeable photograph was taken several hours later ...
... on the hill just outside the town, about half kilometer from my house ... on the previous picture, you saw the Agalenatea redii spider feeding on the Green tortoise beetle (Cassida viridis)
A bit later ...
... I found another spider here ...
... a species that I never noticed before.
It looks like something from the Araneidae Family ...
... but after an hour-long Internet investigation ...
... I still don't know exactly what kind of spider is this.
While I was taking these shots ...
... the spider was busy working on his web ...
... so we were both very concentrated on our work ...
... and at the end ...
... he created a brand-new hunting tool ...
... and I got enough pictures ...
... to create this overlong, and maybe slightly boring pile of spider - portraits in various poses ...
... maybe this pile of spider photographs would be even longer if I didn't hear someone calling my name after this shot.
A friend was approaching ...
... surrounded by a flock of sheep ... and a few goats ...
... they were returning from the pasture on the coastal meadows to the sheep - house not far from this hill.
We talked for a while ...
... and I took a few shots ...
... before they continued ...
... their journey to the barn.
While the rest of the herd followed my friend in a very organized fashion ...
... just one sheep (and it wasn't even black!) continued to graze ...
... when I shouted that one sheep is left behind ... my friend shouted back "Ah, don't worry ... she'll come when we almost disappear from sight, that's her style." ...
... and in fact ...
... when they were pretty far, almost hidden by some shrubs and trees ... the individualist sheep started sprinting, and she was surprisingly fast and agile... it looked like a woolly bullet headed home.
When the last sheep disappeared from sight ... I started photographing the surrounding towns ... well visible from this elevated place ...
... this is Premantura, situated on a long peninsula across the bay ...
... this is Liznjan, on the hill about 3 kilometers northeast ...
... this is some green house, slightly detached from the rest of Liznjan ...
... and this is Medulin, my hometown ... only the church is visible from here, the rest is hidden behind the vegetation.
Here you can see some relatively big construction site at the outskirts of my hometown.
... as the sun was slowly going down ...
... behind the lands across the bay ...
... I was photographing some small, well camouflaged moth ...
... I took a shot of the sun ...
... then I shot the moth again ...
... another look at the setting sun ... and then ...
... the moth again ...
... followed by the descending disc ...
... and now ...
... with these last few shots ... that I took just seconds (ok, I admit that I'm not completely sure here, maybe were minutes ... but seconds sounds better, slightly more dramatic for a gran finale) before the sun definitely disappeared ...
... is time to end this walk ... as always in these posts on HIVE, the photographs are my work - THE END.
