Saturday in the Park...

We caught the bus early out of Zagreb in order to get to Plitvice Park. This is a national park made up of 16 smaller lakes and waterfalls everywhere. Our bus was very full and we were just out on the highway and picking up speed. On the bus there was the driver and then something like a porter who checks and organizes the tickets. He was walking down the aisle and had just passed us when our driver blasted the horn and slammed on the breaks because two cars had basically stopped in our lane. All the overhead baggage was sliding forward and I thought for sure we were heading for a collision. We stopped in time, but, unfortunately for the porter, he didn't. I felt something bang into my shoulder and saw the porter fly by, desperately trying to grab onto seats....no such luck. He took a very hard fall but was actually able to get up and with a lot of wincing and back rubbing was able to carry on while giving the driver an earful of what he thought about his driving. Croatian can be a very expressive language it would seem.
Luckily there were no more incidents and we arrived safely. We stored our bags and headed out to the trails. I guess we didn't actually read about which way to walk the trails so we found ourselves walking against the traffic a lot of the time. And there was a lot of traffic. We were surprised at the number of people already visiting. It must be crazy in the summer.
We did a lot of hiking, getting lost a fair bit of the time ("Okay, we'll get a map!) but we still saw a lot of sights. Mary even thought she saw a Croatian fox! Turned out to be a squirrel with really long ears.
(She'd had a long day. She figured it out when it ran up a tree.)



In order to get to the big waterfall we had to get over, or under in Mary's case, the boards they nailed across the boardwalk. I think they were worried about water levels but it was all okay!
Great day. Lots of sights, lots of walking and no rain. Calling for rain tomorrow, though. You can't have it all.