Day 93 Out of grey skys come colour!

Friday 22/06/2018 Apartments Cirjak 411 Sveti Petar na moru, Sveti Petar, 23207, Croatia

Today we woke to heavy sky’s and knew it wouldn’t be long before it stated to rain... what we weren’t expecting was the amount of Lightening and thunder! My goodness it sure is active here... probably all these hills full of limestone drawing the lightening in... I told John that and he laughter a me! My theory anyway and I will stick to it!

It thunder, lightened and rained most of the day! We watched a constant procession of Yachts parading up and down the coastline all day... we felt so sorry for these guys especially if it were there first ever sail... the weather actually is pretty scary if you were on a yacht...

So while this was happening I managed to get my outs and diary done, a little rest completed the day...
around 3 pm the rush eased a fair bit so we took the opportunity to head to look at the lake we have driven by the last 2 weeks.l.
Our first attempt lead us to some Roman ruins which was great except some guy was there taking sand and rocks loading into his car from the archeological site! Very sad that the locals don’t realise what they have here 😭!

There was info about it was a Templer Church from 12th century, when excavations were carried out here they found over 100 graves from 2006-2015 plus a heap of there belongs and household items... as we were leaving the owner of the land where the site is came over to talk to us, of course in French as most do,as we have a French registered car..
Always catch’s them out... once we speak English they don’t usually want to chat... ohh well not much we can do..
So off we headed to find another access to the lake! We did eventually, hit the jackpot a lovely spot... the clouds were still really heavy and the wind was howling... we had come into the spot via a big channel that has been dug from the lake to the ocean... it took over a hundred years to dig it through the sheer rock, they finally finished it in 1770 when Captain Cook was discovering Australia 🇦🇺... unreal really that its been dug so long, but in the big scope of history here just a drip in their ocean...

I was in my element at the edge of the Lake clicking away, wind howling, splitting lightly... unbeknown to me some guy had come over to a John and asked for an entrance payment... ohh dear it’s a cost spot... John is waving at me to come back to the car... I am oblivious and still clicking away... great spot with the wild weather.. finally he got my attention off I set, then realised he had to go and go quickly... we weren’t paying to be here for 10 mins... so off we speed this time to head to Bio Grad for a quick last look. And buy me some bikinis 👙 everyone else has a pair so well might as well join the European look.... see how I go, haven’t worn bikinis for about 30 yrs or more... I have had some for our own pool but not in public... see how I go... anyway got a pair, do hate shopping with John, he isn’t a shopper at all so having him wait while I look feels like I have to hurry then I make rash decisions, where as if by myself I take time to look... will I got a pair and they are nice but would have probably picked a slightly different pair if alone.. so now to be game to wear them...

This is our last night so we headed across the road the new beach bar once home, hoping to have our last drink there! But it’s shut, it’s funny we watched him all day well the time he was there... he opened up had a few there... when it started to rush he shut up shop... opened again around 1-2 then it started raining again... he shut up shop again... we went down to the waters edge, took some shots, but still cold and windy so we headed home.. the high light of the day was the most amazing sunset of soft pink colours.... was worth the horrible weather all day.

We had planned to go out for dinner, but with the weather so awful, I cooked up most of our veggies in the oven and we had a Mediterranean type meal to finish our wonderful 2 weeks here.... it will be sad to leave we had started to actually love it here, but it’s time to move on to the next adventure!Meer informatie