Dolphin Update: Bojan has been saved

Great News!!  Bojan, the speared dolphin I came across during my time in Croatia, has been found with the spear no longer in his back.   You can read the Adriatic Dolphin Research Project’s press release at the link below:

Dolphin Update: Bojan has been saved

A night in Zagreb

An innocent wander through the streets around my hostel turned into a full exploration of the city and an accidental sightseeing affair.  I wandered my way through the streets laden with cafes and old Austrian style buildings.  Navigating my way …

My 20th Birthday

Unfortunately my birthday was not the dolphin filled day I had expected.  As it was the leaving day of the program , it was not a working day and even if it had been the broken camera would’ve prevented us …

A day of water sports at Cikat bay

Mike and I took full advantage of Bura (what the locaals call the strong north winds) on Thursday.  We hiked out to Cikat, a bay on the west side of the island, famous for historical bayside mansions originally built by …

Famous

On Wednesday our little project was visited by a documentary film crew.  Peter Stromberger and his team from Redaktion Production, based in Salzburg Austria, were filing a documentary on sailing along the Croatian coast and wanted to include Blue World’s  …

Lively Little Veli

For a small little village, Veli Losinj has a lot going on. Last  Thursday night Veli had a fun run.  A 2.5km track around the town.  I was planning on going, thinking it would be a good way to see …

Our role as volunteers

Now is probably a good time to explain the research part of the program.  The project uses ‘photographic-identification’ to log the numbers, behaviour and travel patterns of the dolphins within the research area.  Basically this photographic-identification consists of taking photographs …

Not another dolphin post

I figure some of you may be tiring of all the dolphin talk (if that’s possible) so I thought I’d change things up and tell you a bit about my living situation here at Veli Losinj.  We live in a …

Monday was a magical day

After two hours of searching and no dolphin in sight, I was certain we had run our luck dry.  So far we had had a sighting every time we’d gone out on the boat, we had been spoilt and now …

Grilled fish and fresh truffles at Bora Bar

I went for a late lunch, mid afternoon, at Bora Bar, a small restaurant down on the harbour at Rovenska.  Mike had raved about it since reading it was the #1 restaurant suggested in his Croatian guide book, famous for …