[EN]
The channel between Vir and Skoljic islands is interesting due to its fauna and flora. Your children will appreciate plenty of live mollusks, empty shells, mussels, sepia bones and crab skeletons that are possible to be found here. If you encourage getting farther to the water you will find out that there is no problem to walk on foot from Vir to Skoljic island.
Local area is not very attractive for bathing, but if you sink under the water, you can find state protected noble pen shell (Pinna nobilis) - the second biggest bivalve on the world that appears in coastline of the whole Mediterranean sea in the depth from two to thirty meters. Their shells are usually 50 cm long, but it is possible to find specimens longer than 100 cm. One third of the shell is usually sunk in the sandy bottom. They are collected for food and due to dark pearls that grow inside.
Local curiosity is the fact that if you lie freely on the water you will be carried by the stream flowing between both islands with the speed of about 50 cm/sec.
[CS]
Pruliv mezi ostrovem Vir a Skoljic je zajimavy svou faunou i florou. Ve vode lze najit jak spoustu zivych krabu a mekkysu, tak i spoustu prazdnych ulit, skebli, sepiovych kosti a krabich skeletu, ktere urcite oceni vasi georobotci. Pokud se pustite dale do vody zjistite, ze neni problem prejit po dne z Viru az na ostrov Skoljic.
Oblast diky male hloubce nijak nepritahuje ke koupani, ale pokud se zde ponorite pod hladinu, muzete bez problemu nalezt chranenou Kyjovku supinatou (Pinna nobilis) - druheho nejvetsiho mlze na svete vyskytujiciho se v pobreznich vodach celeho Stredozemniho more v hloubce od dvou do triceti metru. Jeji lastury jsou bezne kolem 50 cm dlouhe, ale lze nalezt i exemplare o delce vetsi nez 100 cm. Schranky byvaji priblizne jednou tretinou sve delky zaboreny v piscitem dne. Lovi se na jidlo a kvuli tmavym perlam, které se uvnitr vytvareji.
Mistni zajimavosti je i fakt, ze pokud se volne polozite na hladinu zjistite, ze jste unaseni proudem mezi obema ostrovy rychlosti asi 50 cm/sec.
