Last week I pulled up the garden because Poppet and I headed to Croatia to meet up with his dad for a European vacation. So far we’ve been to Zagreb and Markaska and now we are in Dubrovnik. More about Zagreb, Markaska, food and gardening later. Today we took Poppet to the beach in Dubrovnik so he could have a splash before heading to colder weather in Wales tomorrow. While there I saw something very peculiar and somewhat spectacular.

Not five metres from where Poppet was wading there was a man, in a neat red sweater, fishing. It wasn’t long before he caught a little fish. As he took the fish off the fishing line he let out a couple of loud whistles. Suddenly this black cat appeared from behind a rather well to do hotel about 50 metres away and bounded toward us. When he was a couple of metres away the man tossed the little fish in front of him. It was wiggling and thrashing about as it flew through the air. Just as it landed the cat grabbed it and raced off. I hadn’t even had time to take out my camera. However, about fifteen minutes later he caught another little fish and I quickly grabbed my camera. He handed the fish to a young friend and as he whistled to the cat I got ready to shoot. And this is what happened…