The 7th of January this year was a cold and cloudy Saturday. The weather wasn't kind on the weekend walkers but the gloomy atmosphere looked great in photographs.
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I drove a little more than ten kilometers to the place called Puntizela and took a walk by the sea there.
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Puntizela is a coastal area very close to the city of Pula, just a kilometer or two from the suburbs. The beaches of Puntizela are very popular among locals and tourists during the summer but unlike the similar attractive coastal areas near the city, Puntizela doesn't offer hotel accommodations and camping sites.
Here you can see some examples of the minimalist beach infrastructure on that stretch of coastline.
While passing by the public toilet shown in this photograph ...
... I noticed a diaper change icon that I don't remember seeing before in this area.
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The icon was new to me, but that's not why I photographed the thing. The toilet booth was partially enveloped in translucent nylon foil that created an interesting, artsy effect in combination with the icon.
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Here you can see the pine trees and parasols near and in front of a beach bar that I can't show you because I forgot to photograph it.
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I don't know what is this. It looks a bit like a piece of contemporary art. Maybe it is. Who knows.
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I saw some birds typical of this area while walking by the sea in Puntizela. This juvenile seagull was resting on the top of the streetlamp. This is the juvenile Larus michahellis seagull. The crows, shown in the following photograph ...
... were resting on the barren branches of one of the trees about fifty-sixty meters from the beach. These are the adult hooded crows (Corvus cornix).
Half an hour later, after passing by this garbage can ...
... I saw a seagull and a crow standing near each other ...
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... on the rocks near the sea.
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The crow was holding something in its beak. Something edible, I suppose. In the following photograph ...
... you can take a look at the mysterious interior of the garbage can shown in one of the previous photographs. More precisely, in the one before this series of shots with the seagull & the crow posing together.
Here you can see some white benches and blue dressing cabins near the beach. That's all I can tell, you about this shot.
In this photograph, a friend who was there with me is posing on the platform in front of another small beach construction. It looks like a lifeguard tower or something like that.
Here you can see the handrails that can make entering the sea much easier.
Here you can see a stretch of land on the horizon. An island or a peninsula, can't remember what it was. In the following photograph ...
... I zoomed in on the distant lighthouse situated there.
In this paparazzi shot I caught two men enjoying the cloudy Saturday in Puntizela.
One of them was walking the dog, the other was running. I mean, jogging. It's called jogging when one runs like that. Yep.
I like this tree very much. Is covered with ivy and that ivy definitively gives an unusual look to the tree. A very cool and photogenic plant arrangement.
Here you can see the board on one of the beach bars along the promenade that advertises some summer activities.
At one point I came across this thing in the playground for children.
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It looks like a sculpture. A steampunk creation. Very cool.
This is another public toilet. It looks undamaged when seen from the front ...
... but a different angle shows some cracks and holes.
Even more damage can be seen on the back ...
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... but the cracks and holes are pretty stylish. The thing looks like a work of art. I like a lot this sculpture that wasn't created to be a sculpture.
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Here you can see two benches made of stone and some fairly big eaw stones scattered around them. And again, the scene looks a bit like an art installation with a nice contrast between the shapes made of more or less the same material. There is a vague artsy message hidden here. I haven't found it, but I can smell its presence.
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Not far from there, I came across this pink bench that gave a sudden outburst of intense color in the washed-out cloudy atmosphere of a typical winter day.
Here you can see something that looks like an oversized coin. The following photograph ...
... shows a wider scene that includes the mysterious coin-like thing from the previous shot. The whiteboard, more or less in the center of the picture, looks like a thing that should have something written or drawn on it ...
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... so I created this simple animation to fill the empty space.
Here you can see a fluffy little dog.
Just that. A fluffy little dog.
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In this lovely piece of public artwork, a black dog is sailing through the stylized sea.
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This red thing that may or may not be a lifeguard tower was already shown earlier in the post, but here you can see it from a different angle and the sky provides a better background in this shot.
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I don't know about you, but I see a face in the red thing shown in the foreground of this photograph. A face of a fish or some fish-like creature stranger than a fish. In the following photograph ...
... you can see the same scene from a different angle. No matter the angle ...
... these are all details of a boulder made for children to climb it.
Here you can see the dry stone walls a couple of kilometers from the small town called Vodnjan, about ten kilometers north of Puntizela and the city of Pula. I was planning a road trip further north that day, but a gentle rain started falling just outside Vodnjan.
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That's how I ended up in Puntizela. That's why this post is set there.
AND THAT'S IT. AS ALWAYS IN THESE POSTS ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK.