
| It was a nice hike. With my leg, wounded on a basketball game, I chose a 'less demanding' tour. We left bicycles on one point of the road, drove further, left our car there and started a hike. Nice woods, great rock formations, soon we reached the main summit. Unfortunately the weather deteriorated, it started to rain lightly. Still, we continued the traverse of Bijele stijene, carrying the whole equipment to spend a night there.
Crossing slopes above a small valley I suddenly spotted a big animal, running joyfully some 50 meters away, and down the valley. 'Great, I've never seen a wild boar so far', I thought. Then I looked better and - it was a bear! A true bear! Perhaps not yet fully grown, but a beautiful animal, seen in wilderness. Soon an anxiousness replaced the enthusiasm. 'Is it with mother? If yes, where is she?' Jasmina comfortably continued by the path, entering the ravine, where the beast came down. 'If it is with mother, then she is already ahead', Jasmina, the great master of Velika Kapela's bears positions, concluded. So we continued our hike and I was the whole day long seeing bears behind each corner of these wild rocky mountains.
Because of bad weather we concluded the hike in one day, not going into Samarske stijene. They still stay in my list of wishes. |