A Watery Surprise - KAP Jasa - kite team Slovenia
So we decided to visit Planina polje, the fascinating kart field southwest from Ljubljana to catch the Autumn colours that grace its edges, but we completely disregarded the Autumn rains that fell a couple of days before. The paths crisscrossing the Planina polje are off limits to cars (park at the edge and protect the ... Read more
Requiem for a Manor: Haasberg Castle, Slovenia - KAP Jasa - kite team Slovenia
Castles are epitomes of History. They are almost eternal, defying the ravages of centuries, standing tall and seemingly timeless. Seemingly. For castles are ephemeral. Fleeting. More like a dandelion puffball than a slab of granite. This is the story of two of them. One a castle proper, a Medieval fortress; the other an exquisite manor, ... Read more
Showers of May - KAP Jasa - kite team Slovenia
We know, we know … as we were obsessed with Ljubljana Marshes, it would seem that we are now fixated on Planina polje. But we can’t help it – the polje is so intriguing, and ever changing, and beautiful … So as we were driving down to Dolenja vas for the party, the 10th anniversary ... Read more
While We Wait for the Romans - KAP Jasa - kite team Slovenia
Since we’ve got exciting news about some strange rectangles on Planina polje, we were occupied by the thought of finding (or at least confirming the existence of) archaeology in a most unusual place: a flood-prone, marshy karst field. So we were back at the first opportunity, this time with a better infrared camera, hunting for ... Read more
We like to show that kites are great for science. This time we flew an infrared camera above Planina karst field, Slovenia, in pursuit of some Roman army camps:
https://kapjasa.si/en/pareidolia-on-the-meadows-part-i/
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Pareidolia on the Meadows, Part I - KAP Jasa - kite team Slovenia
The exquisite wet meadows of Planina polje are enchanting, even mysterious. Not much effort is required to find rare plants and animals that thrive in this rather unique ecosystem – polje is regularly flooded, therefore human encroachment was always limited – and it’s similarly easy to imagine spirits and fairies inhabiting the misty greens by ... Read more
Wilhelm Putick, a Moravian karstologist and speleologist, is the main figure of the sisyphean efforts to turn Planina polje into an agricultural paradise.
He failed - one can't really fight karst and expect to win - but the beauty of the flooded karst plain would impress him for sure.
More here: https://kapjasa.si/en/sisyphus-of-karst/
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Sisyphus of Karst - KAP Jasa - kite team Slovenia
Wilhelm Putick – Viljem Putik, born in 1856 in Popůvky, Moravia – has a near-mythical status in Slovenian karstology and speleology, and rightly so. As a young student he was impressed by the heroic era of exploration of Moravian Karst – here is a sink, there is a spring, the water flows underground, let’s follow ... Read more
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