Monday 5 May 2014

Krk island

Sat 3rd may

An earlyish for us (we now find it impossible to have less than 8 hrs sleep) start had us headed for the Island of Krk. The road and scenery were fab – great curves and some miracles of engineering took us around Rijeka and onto a brand new motorway to the island.  Forgot to mention the teeming rain………again.  


Krk bridge view


campsite rock beach & idiot?

The bridge across is very impressive. We drove straight to camping Krk – formerly a naturist site, but now officially a “textile” site. Thank goodness.  4 star luxury at ACSI prices. Very, very nice site with designer loos and swimming pool.  We walked into town around some lovely inlets. Nice place.


view from path to Krk town



circle the difference(s)?


Sunday 4th may

Cloudy with cold wind – not what we wanted!  Scooted into town and walked around the narrow streets of the old town. Back for lunch then a cycle to Punat marina some 6km away. Mega yachts and a huge boat yard / marina hinted at what it must be like here in August.


thought it was yellow?


sunset view from van


 Lots of people were leaving to go home so the site was very quiet – have we finally arrived at the quiet season??  Lovely evening sun and great sunset across the bay to Krk town.

Monday 5th  


Sunshine all day!  We scooted into town and had a coffee and yummy cake before we embarked for our 4 hour island cruise.  We were the only English speakers – German was the dominant language as most tourists seem to be German, Swiss or Austrian. 






remote beach - boat only!


We burbled along the coast and passed some seriously lunar rock formations.  There were some amazing tiny beaches only accessible by boat.  The landscape at Starska Barska was truly lunar and very barren.  We cruised past the cliffs of one island and saw a Griffon Vulture roosting. It was completely unperturbed by the boat engine or the stupid German guy repeatedly clapping his hands! 


lunar landscape 


We are now officially islanded out.  Next planned move will be inland to explore the interior of the mainland.


our pitch

2 comments:

  1. Interesting days. The place looks medieval. I see you suntans are developing nicely.

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  2. especially our noses despite sun cream ! bit red after 4 hrs on a boat.

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