July 17 Down to Omiš (Day 294)

Road trip today! We will travel down the coast, past 2 large towns, Zadar and Split, to our destination along the southern coast. But first we will enjoy the sunrise on the balcony of our apartment in Stinica!

Looking down on the holiday apartments below us. The sun has not yet fully illuminated the island in the distance. The balcony was non-usable yesterday in the heat of the day!

After our coffee and leftover pizza breakfast we loaded the car and set off.

We stopped at the waterside cement pad we were at last night. Robert was hoping he could fly the drone, but people were already swimming there! The back side of the crumbling stone building has a beautiful mural. A local pet walking by panting attests to the day heating up already!

The long narrow islands visible from the coastal road look so barren we wonder what means of sustenance are viable there!

From a distance we could see long dark ribbons on the island. With the aid of binoculars we identified them as rock fences.! Why we wondered? Find the answer HERE!

As we traveled along the coast we saw evidence of aquaculture, just what kind we couldn’t figure out!

This looked like a fish or shrimp farm. But other installations looked like just lines of buoys in small bays. We learned later that these are mussel farms. The buoys hold ropes suspended in the water with mesh sacks for the growing mussels.

Further down the coast we passed a picturesque beach.

On the outskirts of Karlobag, the town name can be deciphered from the shadow in the sand of the swing set!

We stopped in Karlobag for a coffee at a beach bar. The ‘beach’ here was a stone wall with ladders down into the crystal water, with a few swimmers and sunbathers in the intense, hot sunshine.

Across the ‘beach’ were a few pleasure boats, including one that looked almost like a pirate ship!

We skirted around the town of Split which is much larger than we expected!

The tall buildings of Split can be seen in the hot, hazy distance as we took country roads past the peninsula the city occupies.

We stopped briefly in the smaller resort town of Omiš, and finally reach our destination, Sunrise Studio Apartments, just south of Omiš!

The early evening view from our balcony across the road and out across the water to an island. Below the road there is a beach reached via a tunnel under the road and stairs!

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