The fun of traveling to destinations of sun and beach is to compare the details between them: the sand, the water, the vegetation, the bars and of course the people and how they behave.
In Corfu one of the reasons of being always on the move it was due to the fact that we didn’t found any beach, good enough, that met our expectations. Beaches of sand but with doubts about quality of water, or others where one have to walk 300 meters until having water to waist level, or with too much garbage, or without infrastructures, or just too busy.
So when going to Croatia, we expect it to be the perfect escape to an higher level of beach quality!
Due to the group experience, we knew that the beaches in Croatia are very beautiful and makes us think about our Arrábida. Mountains near the sea, clear and clean water and a lot of vegetation.Getting to Hvar Island with blasting heat, after 2 days of traveling in ferry boats with a train trip in the middle, only a nice bath in the beach would make us forget the tiring trip.
Water
The water is simply perfect, warm at 26º, not very salty, with an amazing transparency, the real aquarium full of fishes, perfect for those who like to spend some time inside water swimming, but a disaster for those who prefer waves. People used to open ocean, Adriatic Sea is like a big clean lake.
As the real aquariums, you don’t want to step on everything that lives there. The main danger in Croatia waters are the black thorn and spiking sea hedgehogs therefore is important to be careful and see where you step. The solution are to buy rubber sandals that are sold quite well everywhere.
Sand
Well… the “sand” is something that our adaptation skills were put up to test. The first reaction is to criticize and miss out white sand beaches in Portugal, but after some days in Corfu the adaptation was much easier.
Forget your concept of sandy beach cause it doesn’t exist there. Irregular calcareous rock platforms or round shaped pebbles are the available places to lay your beach towel. As you can easily imagine is hard to find a piece of rock with the size, shape, and orthopedic standards to lay down our bodies, so the best option it to pay for a plastic bed or bring your own air filled mattress. The parasol also can be rented and are set on cement base, although the pine trees shadow are never too far.
Another solution is to find a place with access to the water like in swimming pools, with the typical ladder or a direct dive to deeper waters.
People
Beaches are full of tourists, being the majority from Scandinavia, then Eastern Europeans and Americans and of course Croatians. Hvar’ atmosphere is sophisticated, flashy and fashion, with young, beautiful bodies and a lot of topless. Several bars with lounge music help the environment to be more fun and sexy all the way until the sunset.
As additional sport activities, volleyball games, football and others are technically impossible to practice as one can imagine. The fun has to pass to the water: para-sailing, jet skis, diving, wind-surf, floating donuts or bananas pulled b motor boats, canoeing or tours on boats to surrounding islands.
Below there is a movie of the first beach that we tried in Dubrovnik. Look how every little space of rock is used and the aquatic polo game that is going on at sunset:
Look at the pictures from the famous "sandy"beach. See how the postcards always look better than the real thing.
In case somebody wants to convince you to visit the beautiful beach of Bol, Zlatni rat, do not believe in the “the sand beach of Croatia” bullshit, is another small pebbles beach in a fantastic location and with a peculiar shape.
To see more photos click in:
http://islandbrac.blogspot.com/
The important is always to look for the positive side of things. The warmer water, the beautiful girls and nobody needs to get rid of the irritating feeling of sand in the body. Special in windy days with sand on the eyes and on parts of the body where the sun doesn’t shine. Eheheeh!
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