Croatia part 2 - Korčula

We took a ferry from Split to the island of Korčula, about 3 hours on a fast catamaran passenger ferry. We get there and did the same thing, went to a tourist office, the girl calls a guy, the the guy comes, we walk 100m into the center of town and he shows us an amazing room with a view of the water in the house where he, his father and sister live. The picture on the left is the view from our window.

Being an island, this town is much smaller, and even though there's no city walls, the town is placed on an oval penninsula so the sea acts as the limits to the built environment. Once again, no cars on these sidewalk sized streets, just an amazing tiny old town surrounded by the sea on 3 sides then more modern developments (like cars) towards the land side. We took a 20 minute bus ride to the other side of the island after the reccomendation of a sandy beach from the guy whose house we were staying in. We went through 20 minutes of a hot, sandy, Mediteranean landscape with lots of dark macchia trees and woods to arrive at another town. We walked towards the promised sandy beach only to find a beach about 100m long and maybe 12 feet wide. And it was very occupied with lots of people. So we walk along the rocks further down, trying to avoid places with lots of sea urchins in the water and find a great place next to a small pier to enjoy our day of swimming and reading.

The whole coast there is gorgeous and we saw yachts, small and large, from all over the world cruising around. With all the old cities and beautiful islands, I would think the Dalmatian Coast is a sailor's paradise (Dad- hint, hint).

The seafood, wine, prosciutto and fresh cheese kept us (or maybe just me?) happy during the time we weren't on the rocks by the sea, but that wasnt very much time in the 2 days we stayed on Korčula. Our second day there we walked along the road in the other direction to find a place to swim and found a place to spend the afternoon.

We found an amazing spot with views of the mountains on the mainland and the boats going into the island's harbor. It was another great day in the ocean but we had to abbreviate our stay with the threat of dark clouds overhead. We got back t o the town fairly dry, only to have the rain start pouring down when we were moments away from our next ferry to Dubrovnik. It rains in paradise too, not just Pittsburgh.