Croatia

Now I'm back to England after having spent three glorious weeks in croatia.
There has been working, swimming, sunbathing, barbequeing and everything else related to summer.
But unfortunately, three weeks goes too fast when you have fun, but just a few days after I got home it was time to travel again, but now to Amsterdam. More from that another day.
Photo craving in Croatia was not really on top perhaps because it was so hot :)
I went a few evenings with the car to the places where it was pitch black to try to take pictures of the Milky Way, you think yourself that it's pitch black but with high iso (6400) in camera and 30sec exposure it records so much more and all the small light sources becomes immediately visible in the picture. But this was my first try to shoot the Milky way so I'm pretty satisfied.

Here are some pictures from Croatia:

Beach at Duba stonska

In the village of Hodilje

The view from our summer house

Spider in mold

Celabration in Hodilje

Milky way

Milky way and dubrovnik city lights 50km away

Cactus flower



Ston, Croatia

Today I continue with some pictures from Ston and Hodilje.
Hodilje village just 2 km from Ston is a small fishing village specializing in mussels and oysters, are said to be among the best in the world and I agree with that :)). It is also in Hodilje our summer cottage is located.
Hodilje set inside a long bay and has nutrient-rich water, so that's why it's good for mussel farms and the like.
Swimming and sunbathing, we usually do down at the small boat harbor which is a few hundred meters below the house, but because the water is so nutritious, so visibility is not always scuba-friendly. Therefore, we tend to make small excursions on the Peljesac peninsula to where you're out of the open sea and the crystal clear water and strangely usually much warmer water about 25C. More from Peljesac another day.

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View from summer house balcony

 

Window painting in Ston

A part of Ston wall

 

Ston and the salt ponds from the wall

 Ston and the wall


Picture taken from hodilje against Luka an another fishing village opposite Hodilje.
And some of the mussel farms between them


 

Old wooden door in Ston

Salt ponds in Ston and bad weather in coming

The old church in Ston, i think it was destroyed by an earthquake for long time ago.

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