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wool for their colorful folk costumes. Inhabi- Dolphin watch skipper Duge Bogovic
tants speak their own dialect, which is nearly and guide Barbara Sucich
incomprehensible to other Croats. Susak saw a
massive exodus in the 1960s (it had more than Opposite top: The island's rocky
1600 inhabitants in 1948), - surprisingly, many coastline
of its citizens settled in Hoboken, New Jersey. Bottom: Sandra Nicolich
On the way to Susak it’s not uncommon to be
accompanied by some of around 200 bot-
tlenose dolphins that live in the waters sur-
rounding the island. “It is estimated there are
10,000 dolphins in the entire Adriatic”, says
dolphin-watching tour guide Barbara Sucich
who was born in New York but moved back to
her parents’ home of Cres as a child. “The old-
est dolphins of Lošinj are over 30 years old”, she
added. Swimming with the marine mammals is
strictly forbidden, and to protect them each
tour boat is only allowed to stay close to the
pods for 30 minutes.

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