I spent the day in the city of Pula, and then on my way home ...
... I made a few stops ... and did a few walks, along the way. This photograph is taken in the small village Shishan, where I walked a bit around the center and bought a few things in the small grocery store.
There is an abandoned military complex a kilometer from Shishan. I parked at the entrance, passed by this old, decaying security booth ...
... and continued to sniff around the bunkers ...
... and hangars ...
... immersed in lush springtime vegetation.
First fortifications in this area were built in 1915. They are on the top of the hill overlooking the Adriatic, and I didn't visit them on this occasion. What you see on these photographs was built between 1950 and 1960, and is part of the military complex and large, deep underground fortress, one of those crazy, paranoid and overblown Cold War projects. The base was abandoned during the mid 90'.
As the evening was approaching ...
... I enjoyed the quiet post apocalyptic atmosphere ...
... and the abundance of plant life.
A bit later ...
... I was back near the car ... ready to continue the drive ... and the airplane was passing by high above me ... from my perspective, it looked like the plane was falling in a pretty spectacular way ...
... so I took a few shots ... somehow the aircraft looked invisible when I zoomed on it to take a better look ...
... very soon the mysterious plane disappeared behind the tree tops ... and I continued to the next village.
On this enlargeable photograph I'm in the bay of Liznjan, another small village on the way to my hometown.
Here, near the sea ...
... as the sun was rapidly sinking down ...
... I was focused mostly on flowers.
It looks like these two flowers are talking :D ... and now ...
... with this last shot taken when the sun was almost gone ... is time to end the post, because soon I was home.
As always in these posts on HIVE, the photographs are made by me.
