Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Waterfalls

Well this morning we went to Krka National Park. Its a bunch of waterfalls where you can swim. Its comprised of seven traventine (Limestone) cascades. The falls are formed by limestone particles-traventine flowing through water attaching itself to moss and algae and then acumalating into mass amounts.
Putting the epic geological aspect aside, it was super pretty. The water was soo blue. Especially when compared to all the vivid greens from the trees and mosses. There are over 860 plant species and sub-species of plants, and tons of wildlife... Cailan and I were estactic. Unfortunatly, we didnt see any! Just a water snake, a crap ton of trout and a frog. Oh plus these amazingly florecent blue damsel fly type thingers. 
The falls were super pretty and at the bottom you could go swimming! Except, we were not informed that you could go swimming... so we missed out on that :(
After the hike we dined on the most filling lunch I've ever had. Anf guess what it was, fried calamari! Haha. This isnt a big deal to most people, but for me, its huge! They werent bad, kinda chewy, but much better than the dried stuff... and much more fun than the forkfull of the rosotto calamari I had in Rab. Why? Because they were like, entirely fried whole! I could pick it up and walk it around the plate. There were other pieces which were the suction cups and oh man, it was so gross to see the little tenitcals and all... But so much fun!
After that we went to another town called Trogir, where it was built on an island by the Romans. Funny thing in Croatia. Not sure if its the same at home... but if an bridge connects an island to the mainland, then it becomes part of the mainland and is no longer considered and island. Legally. So it is then refered to as a peninsual. I say this because Trogir is and island, but not considered one because it is attached by a bridge. It is then attatched to another island on the other side and that one is considered a penisula.
Crazy....
Tonight is watching the last semi finals of the world cup.

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