I didn't expect to see carbonized wood and melted plastic when I went for a walk by the sea in Liznjan's harbor on the 9th of October.
Only a couple of hours later, when I returned home, I found the news on all the local news portals about a fire that started late at night, at 1:20 AM precisely, and was extinguished at 2:45 AM.
The beach bar was a small family business so ... yeah, the fire definitively created one of those sad situations that one can easily relate to.
The tractor parked behind the bar was also significantly damaged.
Five or six meters from the tractor, the heat has melted the back sides of the garbage cans by the side of the road. Their interior was visible through the big holes.
Just like me, the people who live near the harbor were exploring the site of the fire. Fires in urban areas are something that fortunately happens rarely. I don't remember something like this happening in Liznjan. What I wanted to say is that it is quite normal for curious homo sapiens to be interested in a rare, dramatic event of this kind.
Meanwhile, the surrounding nature and the big blue sea looked pretty indifferent. With the burned things out of the frame, it was just another quiet October afternoon.
All three photographs of this seaside tryptich share the same background, a chunk of the bay, and some distant details of the harbor, but the foreground of each shot shows a different kind of coastal plant.
In the picture on the left, you can see the lovely yellow flowers of the golden samphire (Limbarda crithmoides).
In the right picture, you can see the reed grass (Phragmites australis).
Here you can see the stylish path that leads along the beach. In the following photograph ...
... the same path leads to the burned remains of the beach bar that went into flames the night before.
Two chairs ended up trapped under a burned beam.
The destruction left many chaotic details on display.
Through the lens of my camera, I was trying to find some kind of composition in all that decomposition.
Here you can see a chair that looks like an injured survivor near the pile of garbage left by the catastrophe.
Big metal objects were in a relatively good shape compared with everything else.
This looks like a burned refrigerator.
Here you can take one last look at the red tractor.
Today, while preparing this post, I revisited the local Internet portals and found the old news about the burning of the beach bar. The exact cause of the fire is unknown. Probably an open fire was left burning in the small kitchen after the closure.
And that's it, as always in these Wednesday Walks on Hive, the photographs are my work.
