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Today we decided with our American friends, Matt and Mary, to kick our laziness and head to the beach. But this wasn't a trip to the beach across the street: instead we caught the ferry from Split and headed to a special beach on the Croatian island of Brac (pronounced Brotch). The ferry was only an hour and we could see this island from our house.
The island is not very big, but is one of the largest in the Adriatic sea. The town we landed in, called Supetar, was a cute little ocean side town, with extremely narrow streets. We went for a quick walk around the town to find a pekara (bakery) to bring some bread to the beach, and we came across this older couple that had driven their car down this narrow street. We're pretty sure that this narrow little street was not meant to be driven down, since there were a set of stairs right in front of where the car had stopped. Needless to say, the car needed to back out, but the streets were so narrow that they needed our help. Eventually we got him out of the first narrow spot, but then
we realized just how far back he'd have to back out, so we crept away after getting him through the toughest bit (we didn't want to be there all day!).
After visiting the town for a bit we drove about 15km to the other side of the island, right over the mountains through steep switchbacks, to The Horn beach in the town of Bol. The beach at Bol is considered Croatia's most famous beach because of it's golden sandbar which wraps around a wooded area (like a triangle) and the peak of the sandbar juts out at one edge into the Adriatic. So when you're sitting on the beach, you are surrounded by water on three sides of you, like a peninsula. It's cool, but we were somewhat disappointed because there really wasn't a lot to this beach, and it wasn't actually sand, but small rocks. This seems to be a theme in all of the Croatian beaches we've seen. I'm sure sandy beaches exist somewhere, but it seems that those around Split are rocky. This made it very tough on the feet to move around and even get into the water. It was a cooler day though, so
we didn't do much swimming. The redeeming factor on this day was that we were pretty much the only ones on the beach, so we sat right at the tip of the peninsula and were almost surrounded by water. In the height of summer, this beach is known to be completely packed of people, and I think that might make this trip not worthwhile, but since we were alone, it was a neat experience.
We got there early, and since it was cold and windy we didn't really feel up to swimming. Instead we had brought a spongebob square pants ball (we bought from the market earlier) and decided to play "volleyball" with it. It wasn't so much volleyball, but we had challenged ourselves to volley the ball around to each other and see if we make it to 100 passes. Head shots counted for 10 and we needed to get to 100 to stop and relax. After awhile we didn't make 100 and our feet were hurting from the rocks, so we stopped anyways to relax on the beach and the boys went for a swim. (Later that day though, on the beach in Podstrana, we did make
it to 100... it was epic!)
We left the beach mid afternoon and headed back to the ferry terminal to get home. Once at home we went down to our beach for a beer. We spent the rest of the evening hanging around with the others who didn't make it out to Brac that day and watched the beautiful sunset and the supermoon which made an appearance. As usual, we all ate dinner together but this time inside, because the weather was starting to look like it may rain. We also had some birthday cake to celebrate one of the other student's birthday.
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