A Day Trip to Brac

The Croatian archipelago lies along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea and has 1,244 natural formations, of which 78 qualify as “islands”, 524 are deemed islets, and 642 are cliffs and reefs. Forty-nine of the islands are permanently inhabited, and these are relatively close to the mainland.

We wanted to explore as many as possible off the coast of Split…but how to narrow this down for one day? After some online sleuthing, ChatGPT Q&A, and Paul’s travel guide expertise we decided on quality over quantity—a day on Brac.

Brac is a large island so after taking a ferry to Supetar, we rented a small convertible (for a brief time we considered an ATV but in the end we opted for comfort!) Our stops included: Splitska (the smallest town but definitely our favorite), Pučišca, Bol (beautiful…this was our lunch spot—see food pics), and Milna.

We stopped to swim in Pučišca, the water was wonderful… and we agreed that this was our “high”. We could have spent the entire day on the small swimming platform at the entrance to the harbor. Paradise!

Pučišca was relatively deserted except for visitors to the stone masonry school. https://klesarskaskola.hr/en/ (I was scolded for looking in and taking the photo!)
There’s a rumor that the pillars of the White House were made here. We have yet to confirm this!

We crossed the island to have lunch in Bol…settling on an octopus burger (Paul) and salmon salad at a funky fish bar.

Milna was our last stop, it’s is a popular anchorage for sailboats and we arrived to watch them all docking (~4:30). We didn’t stay long… this town had a semi-abandoned feeling to it. We weren’t sure if this was due to the end-of-season ‘blues’ or the fact that most people arrive by boat and only spend the night in the harbor.

We had a nice dinner back in Split at Fantazija Kitchen where we sampled pickled motar http://freshadriaticfish.blogspot.com/2007/09/l…

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