Part 1:https://steemit.com/travel/@careassaktart/my-recent-travel-jablanac-croatia-september-2018
Part 2: https://steemit.com/travel/@careassaktart/happy-family (still opened for your upvotes!!!)
Twingo takes me everywhere! Twingo is my airplane!
Part 3: Hunting The Magic Mushrooms On Balkans
I've been studying, searching, picking, eating & selling mushrooms since I became a vegetarian. In that time I realized that if I don't start growing & finding my own natural food, that I will surely be hungry or, even worst - ill & sick! & that is no good because everything was given to us on this planet Mother Earth! It is a paradise for us but we are unfortunately destroying it. Nevertheless, there is still hope & there will always be as long as humanity has any empathy for themselves & for other living beings - Earthlings!
Let's go back to the mushrooms - I've been hearing a lot in the last approx. 10 year that magic mushrooms could be found in all temperate & tropic areas on this beautiful planet & also I've been hearing that there are people who actually found the magic mushrooms in Balkans too! But I have never had a chance to meet those people & learn from them so I ventured into my own adventures!
So, I was searching for the areas where I still can find cows living open air on the pastures & shitting all over the place & which are more than 800 m high above the sea level. Then I got a hint that Velebit has all these parameters: the height & the cows running around! I still didn't know much about the Balkan magic mushrooms species & how to recognize the real ones but I took a mobile phone & the camera & went for a short & sweet research trip!
This is what I found:
probably Panaeolus cinctulus or Panaeolus foenisecii or Panaeoulus Sphinctrinus
another specie - possibly Psylocybe merdaria or maybe the small Panaeoluses
another specie - Agrocybe molesta
another specie - don't know this one at all
their habitat - at least 5 species of mushrooms were growing there on the cow dong:
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I took some of these samples home to make the spore prints but as my home was about 100 km away, the mushrooms were changing colors after picking & I didn't make the right systematization & in the end I couldn't be precise which specimen is which & whose spore print is whose... To bad! This was a big mistake! & that's the reason also why I didn't try ingesting any of the mushrooms I picked!
You need to be very careful with the mushrooms!
Part 4: https://d.tube/#!/v/careassaktart/myjkdq2g
On this off-road drive with my reliable Twingo I made some encounters & great shots too... The bikers you could have seen in a video came down to the same point where I stopped & we had few shots taken there:
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I realized that a lot of tourists come to the NP Northern Velebit, mostly the active tourists with bikes or hikers or the free-climbers... Unfortunately, a lot of hunters-killers too & to many lumberjacks! But what can I do about it?! It's an organized, legal mafia...
I hope that this travel post will satisfy the adventurers & nature lovers to drop an upvote or two! & of course, all the comments & resteemes are very much welcomed!
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