Vrsar Off The Beaten Path

This is the only wooden statue among those that are scattered in Vrsar. It looks as a kind of pilgrim or a traveler, holding a tambourine in his right hand. Unfortunately, I could not take a good picture as it was in the shade and a car was parked that I could not avoid.

Isn't it looking like a small menhir (I mean one of these standing stone found especially but not only in the Celtic countries) ? Actually, I would not be surprised if the artist wanted to make a kind of replica of the campanile that tops the town.

Look at what you will might be looking after too much tanning in the sun ! The body would partly melt and distort. The material that was in the head and in the arms has trickled and gathered into the bum and the legs !! Haha !! Actually, this black stone statue is very lively and its shapes pleasant to the eye !

What is that ? A helmet ? It is amazing, but if I had the choice, I would not moor on this one. I am not confident at all of the way a line will stand on this amazing shape. I thought at first that several were more "fancy" that "bollard", but finally, this is the only one which is not completely reliable !

This one looks more conventional, or at least like a conventional bollard that would have been used so long that the ropes would have carved deep in the stone !
In the background another one mixes the cork driver shape and a conventional top.

This truncated sphere should also make a reliable mooring. Each of the fancy bollards have been carved by a different artist at the occasion of a kind of competition that took place in the quarry from where the stones were extracted.

This one has an amazing shape too, both curved and carved as a hook ! It should be very efficient for mooring. Once the line of the mooring will be trapped in the hook, there is no way that it might get loose !

This fancy bollard is a more tortuous one ! I am not sure that mooring will be very reliable on this cork driver shaped bollard ! That is what I thought at first sight. Actually, thinking a little more, as it will not turn, it should work well.