Day 85 The Beauty of Blue

Thursday 14/06/2018 Apartments Cirjak 411 Sveti Petar na moru, Sveti Petar, 23207, Croatia

What a painful start to the day, nothing but trouble trying to upload my pics... it started last night did 2 uploads of same pics after editing them 2 times... the net just wouldn’t send them... so did same this morning and lost them again 2 times, the iPad played up, the iPhone played up and so did trying to take my outs from iPhone to the external hard drives.... after about 5 hrs of mucking around to be honest this whole process is starting to really peeve me off...

Anyway, finally had a win after much difficultly, had lunch earlier and around 3pm when things were really weighing me down we hit to road for a drive to check out the small beach villages along the coast from here to nearly at Sibenik, didn’t go that far.... it’s the next big centre from a Bio Grad....

How unreal is this countryside limestone rocks just everywhere! Olive groves abounding in the most inhospitable looking areas but growing so healthy. Fig trees wild everywhere, veggie plots in amongst or beside all the olive trees... I could go on and on for hours about this strange but amazing landscape... then the limestone rocks right to the waters edge just amazing with teal, blue crystal clear waters... in one way down right ugly in another just so beautiful it takes your breath away... the blue colour is mesmerising to say the least..from different angles it looks different like a horned stone in some rings.... a bejewelled water that’s what it resembles some times as you look at it... has to do with the limestone bass under the water I am sure.... gives it a different hue to our sandy beaches... not that ours aren’t spectacular they certainly are, but this colour just draws you in....

We ducked in and out of about 8-10 little villages, all not so pretty but each one had a treasure trove of delights to discover... most had big Marinas with a huge amount of sailing and motor boats abounding... the bigger the village or larger town the bigger the Motor craft becomes and the $$$$ you see floating...
I guess it’s like where you live Karen, all those Marinas and big expensive motor boats.... only this is all Ali g the Croatia coastline not just the Sydney coast line.... I though NSW has heaps of Marinas and pleasure craft but this place knocks it on the head for just so many in the oddest of spots such little villages with big Marinas and pleasure craft moored... I guess it’s also like home the bigger the village or seaside town the greater the mooring fees... the smaller the village the cheaper it would be....

Each place had tourist type set ups! I would say in a week or two these places will be over run with people..for now they all have the appeal of sleepy little villages you could escape the dramas of life from!

Cove after cove appeared around each bend of the coastal fringe, not only inlets and coves abound but so does Island after island...this would have to be the most unusual place to see, not being a pretty setting, to say its fascinating, it really is...Unusually fascinating it really is,... Certainly is a yachties paradise for sure... as John said you could sail around here fo 6 months and still only touch the surface!

We stopped at another little seaside village that had a great atmosphere about it... interesting as it turned out... As we sat at their little bar area on the wharf, there were about 4 locals at one table, at another table were 3 blokes a women and teenage boy, another table of locals and a bloke who kept coming and going... the first table grew to about 10 as it was the opening of the Soccer World Cup unbeknown to us... the waitress kept ducking in and out of the restaurant serving drinks from the restaurant that was about 50 metres away. She kept ducking in and out between having a fag then a drink then she would get a customer a drink, funny to watch.... the toing and froing....

But the most interesting group was the guys and girl at the other table wheeling and dealing boating buying or selling or something, they had beers and what was left of some local rocket fuel that the had already consumed most of ... they spoke to the girl and guy in one language you could see it wasn’t their first language, then when they didn’t want the others to know what they were talking about they spoke in English which also wasn’t their first language, what was their language, that they actually spoke was anyones guess.... we sat there for about 40 mins or more so I got to watch the proceedings instead of the game which was much more entertaining...... discussing engine hours and what boats they had! To b honest t me they looked like they thought they had the girl and guy over a barrel... but I think they other couple knew what they were about,. the teen boy just sat there... mind you he was a big boy towered over the 2 blokes wheeling and dealing, and they weren’t exactly little....

Eventually we had to go, so a quick whip around the wharf area to see what else was Interesting..... turns out there were little restaurants and cafes tucked here, there and everywhere... such a great little place I could have again seen ages exploring the area.... tried to check out the old church tucked down an alley p, but the poo truck was pumping out the locals excrement..certainly had an odour that’s for sure... so only got a quick pic while they did their pumping.... that finished us off so we headed off...

We drove back to Bio Grad to get a pizza for dinner... I do love this little place to and after a drive around it earlier it has facets to it you would never know were there.... Pizza was ok nothing amazing, then we headed off to look around the little alleys finding little features on walls and in shops, as we walk around. Again we discovered heaps more restaurants and cafes tucked here there and everywhere, you have no idea they are there until you start to look around all the alleys!

Another interesting fact we discovered as we drove around some of the bays were the amount of Camp grounds come caravan parks, if I thought there were alot of Marinas well double or triple that for camping grounds... my goodness every seconds road up the highway led to a other camp ground and the little villages had them everywhere... of course not a lot in them were opened yet, Camp grounds and cabin grounds.... this area must be like Montenegro when it will explode with people soon..l wish we weren’t going to be here when it happens but it going to be unavoidable as it’s all over Europe for their summer break.... so we just have to suck it up and work around it......

It’s not just Europe being on holiday it’s the world coming here, because it’s summer here most people from all over come to see the sights, as most travel companies run their tours now as well...a few run tours in the winter months but not many... so you have locals in each country on holiday and then everyone from the winter countries escaping their cold so where do you go Europe to see the sights... hence why it gets so many people in such small areas... in Australia everyone usually heads north for winter where it’s not as cold, and yes for us its a lot of people....but in reality it’s really only a little ripple in the big pond.... because the sheer volume of people in fluxing over here is beyond any number we could ever imagine or deal with in Aust.... to be honest we’ve done well to duck it so far... not going to be able to from here on until Oct and that’s when we head to Thailand 🇹🇭 and it’s full of people so we will just have to cope until we get home... then it will be time for our holidays.... thank goodness our holiday numbers are no where nearly as many as they are here....

However in saying all that we are enjoying seeing these unreal sights everyday... we are so blessed to live in such an amazing diverse world... As it says in the Bible beyond compare our God has blessed us with amazing sights, sounds and smiles.... appeasing all our senses time and time again..... and what a truly blessed era we live to be able to see, experience and enjoy all these wonders.... even 50yrs ago it was really out of the everyday mans dreams... now anyone can experience the wonder of travel......もっと詳しく