Včeraj sva paglavce zmetala v avto, spakirala še Dino in smo šli. Na prvo vožnjo in prvi sprehod.* Na skrit travnik sredi barja. Med koruzo na eni strani in gozdom na drugi. Malo rekreirat bi se temu reklo.

več slik v galeriji

*Hooch je imel ta privilegij že kak teden nazaj, ko je šel obiskat našo babico

Yesterday the sprogs got to ride in the car for the first time, they also got to leave the yard for the first time and go on a proper walk. We ended up just a short drive away on a secluded field hidden by corn fields and a patch of wood on one side.

there’s more in the gallery of course

So it’s not all about dogs around here… I refuse to post a photo of a beautiful Krasevec / Sarplaninac mix with Triglav in the background ;)

View of Studorski preval (1892m) from Visevnik (2050m)

More in the hills section of the gallery.

Simply picking them up on Pokljuka would have been boring (not to mention lazy of me) so I decided I’d meet them somewhere half way between Pokljuka and Vodnikov dom (Vodnik hut). When I got up to Visevnik it was still very early so I took off my shirt and boots to let them dry off a little while I take some photos.

Although I normally tend to avoid carrying heavy stuff up hills (or anywhere else for that matter, I learned my “travel heavy” lesson a while ago) I decided I’d bring my 70-200 lens along anyway since I expected some distant views (of Triglav etc.) With it I was able to spot and correctly identify the group still a long way off, across the valley on Studorski preval (Studor pass).
Then after some 30min I got up on my already slightly blistered feet and continued down to Srenjski preval and around Mali Draški vrh to meet them, then we walked right back up and down the same way I came. Other than an innocent slip and fall by one of the girls that resulted in her helmet tubling down into the valley below (but not her) and a deer sighting there’s not much more to report. Well… maybe I should mention the nice cool temperatures up there, especially compared to the oven a.k.a. Ljubljana. You might want to ponder on that if you’re stuck in the city like I am today ;)

As we were coming back from a dive and through the Split straits between islands Solta and Brac we were hit by a short rain storm so beautiful it has to be one of the best 30min of my life. The rain cloud seemed tied to the Brac side of the straits, swallowing one sailboat after another as we were approaching it from the southwest and it finally cut loose when we got near it.

Those moments were pure poetic simplicity. Millions of raindrops on the calm surface of the sea, rising mist obscuring our view of sailboats and coastlines nearby, thunder as background soundtrack…. words and photos cannot even begin to describe the situation.

I just hope Miro got some excellent shots out of it. It would be too brilliant footage to miss in the documentary.