Rok i Ribafish, sin i otac, bili su geocacheri amateri i skupili su preko 300 cacheva sa svih strana svijeta. Imali su plan zajedno posjetiti sve naseljene hrvatske otoke, no njihovu avanturu je prekinula sudbina. Danas, Rok više nije na ovom svijetu, ali tata Ribafish ispunjava obećanje koje mu je dao - da će posjetiti sve hrvatske naseljene otoke, pa stvara Udrugu i projekt #RokOtok, edukacijsko plivački maraton u kojem će kroz tri godine i pedesetak etapa preplivati udaljenosti između svih 50 hrvatskih naseljenih otoka. Ujedno, na svakom otoku će pokušati drugim klincima razviti svijest o važnosti provođenja zajedničkog vremena roditelja i djece kroz sport, druženje, učenje, istraživanje, kao i važnost očuvanja prirode. Geocaching se također promovira kao jedna aktivnost koja odvlači djecu od buljenja u igrice na ekranu prema avanturi, orijentaciji i istraživanju prirode.
Projekt je počeo u ljeto 2019. kad je preplivao preko 100 km spajajući 17 naseljenih otoka u južnom Jadranu. Zbog poznate Covid situacije i ograničenja preskočena je 2020. godina, u ljeto 2021. je projekt nastavljen na Srednjem Jadranu gdje se obišlo 17 novih otoka, dok je ove 2022. godine red došao na Sjeverni Jadran i finalnih 17 naseljenih otoka u Hrvatskoj.
Hrvatski geocacheri su se okupili i napravili “ekološke” cacheve koji će uz prigodnu prezentaciju o geocachingu biti postavljeni na tih 17 otoka. Ovo je jedan od cacheva iz serije.
Za više detalja o projektu #RokOtok posjetite stranicu www.rokotok.hr, a kako je cijeli projekt prilično medijski popraćen, za aktuelne informacije jednostavno izguglajte!
Vir
Otok Vir (talijanski Puntadura) je otok u Hrvatskoj. Nalazi se sjeverozapadno od grada Nina, a odvojen od kopna kod mjesta Privlaka plitkim gazom. Gaz je za vrijeme Austro-Ugarske prokopan kako bi mogli kroz njega prolaziti manji brodovi. Na tom najbližem položaju prema kopnu, izgrađen je most na 11 stupova sedamdesetih godina 20. stoljeća.
Osim samoga naselja Vir, na otoku se nalaze zaseoci: Torovi, Lozice i Kozjak. Najviši vrh Vira je Barbinjak, 116 m n/m. Otok je slabije razveden. Na sjeveroistočnom pogledu s Vira proteže se otok Pag, a jugozapadni pogled gleda na Virsko more i otoke Ugljan, Sestrunj, Rivanj, Molat i Ist.
Na otoku Viru, u zaljevu Kozjak nalaze se ostaci stare mletačke tvrđave iz 17. stoljeća.
Rok and Ribafish, son and father, were amateur geocachers and they found over 300 caches from all over the world. They had a plan to visit all the inhabited Croatian islands together, but their adventure was interrupted by fate. Today, Rok is no longer in this world, but dad Ribafish fulfills the promise he gave him - that he will visit all Croatian inhabited islands. So, he created the Association and the project #RokOtok (Otok = island in Croatian), an educational swimming marathon in which he will connect all 50 Croatian inhabited islands by swimming, in three years and fifty(ish) stages. At the same time, on each island he will try to educate children and develop their awareness of the importance of spending time with their parents through sports, socializing, learning, research, as well as the importance of nature conservation. Geocaching is also promoted as one activity that distracts children from staring at on-screen games towards adventure, orientation and nature exploration.
The project began in the summer of 2019 when he swam over 100 km connecting 17 inhabited islands in the southern Adriatic. Due to the known Covid situation and restrictions, the year 2020 was skipped, in the summer of 2021 the project continued in the Central Adriatic where 17 new islands were visited, while this year 2022 it was the turn of the Northern Adriatic and the final 17 inhabited islands in Croatia.
Croatian geocachers gathered for this project and made "ecological" caches that will be placed on these 17 islands with a short presentation on geocaching. This is one of the caches from the series.
For more details about the #RokOtok project, visit the page www.rokotok.hr, and as the whole project is quite covered by the media, just google it for current information!
Vir
The island of Vir (Italian: Puntadura) is an island in Croatia. It is located northwest of the city of Nin, and is separated from the mainland near Privlaka by a shallow channel. The channel was dug during the Austro-Hungarian Empire so that smaller ships could pass through it. At that closest position to the mainland, a bridge on 11 pillars was built in the 1970’s.
Apart from the village of Vir itself, there are villages on the island: Torovi, Lozice and Kozjak. The highest peak of Vir is Barbinjak, 116 m above sea level. The island is less indented. On the north-east view from Vir stretches the island of Pag, and the south-west view overlooks the Vir Sea and the islands of Ugljan, Sestrunj, Rivanj, Molat and Ist.
On the island of Vir, in the bay of Kozjak, there are the remains of an old Venetian fortress from the 17th century.
