Making plans to visit Vjetrenica cave, with Nikša Vuletić, director of PE Vjetrenica.

Špela looking for animals in the lake in Donja Vjetrenica.

Vjetrenica is used as a winter shelter by some bats, during our visit we found some individuals of greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) in the cave.

Teo sampling animals collected at the Lukavac spring below Vjetrenica cave.

Caves in the area around Nevesinje were harder to reach because of the winter conditions.

When returning from the fieldwork, we stopped by the road to admire the beautiful view over Trebinje.

Impressive entrance of the Dramešina cave, leading to completely flooded and therefore unreachable channels.

Winter landscape on the way to Dramešina cave.

Sampling at Jasenovik spring.

On the way to “Ratkovića pećina” that turned out is non-existing.

Exchanging information about the potential interesting springs we could visit, with the man living in the area of Dabarsko polje.

View of Zalomka river that runs along Nevesinjsko polje.

Sampling in Šnjetica cave.

Group photo with Jasminko from Center for Karst and Speleology and members of SubBioLab (Maja, Hans, Anja K., Špela, Anja P., Teo, Beki, Ester).

At the entrance to Muljska pećina cave.

Sampling tiny invertebrates on the water surface in Mrcine cave.

Exiting the Mrcine cave.

After checking the caves at Grebci area, we searched for our starting point and the car.

View over Ključko polje.

Teo descending in Jama u Tijaninom dolu cave.

Numerous isopods of the genus Proasellus, found in Jama u Tijaninom dolu cave.

Teo during sampling of the Proasellus isopods.

Descending to Novo Đatlo cave.

In the evening we made sure that all samples were properly labelled and stored.

Behind the scenes of making beautiful photos of live cave animals.

Water channel on Fatničko polje, which will be used for hydropower plants that are planned in the Trebišnjica river catchment.

On the way to Velika pećina.

After the sampling in Velika pećina. As you can see from the color of our cave suits, the cave is quite muddy.

Measuring water parameters at Vrelo Oko in Zazid in Trebinje.

We also sampled a springs near Trebišnjica, just downstream of the Arslanagića Bridge.