Last night (Thurs) we went down to the Sea Organ, which is a series of pipes which play "music" whose intensity and pitch depend on the wave patterns hitting the wall that which contains the under-ocean chambers that fill up with water, driving the air through the pipes to make sounds like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZj5ID_9TvQ
And, of course, everyone comes to listen to the "music" and watch the sunset.
On Friday, we rented bicycles and biked up to a beach about 5km north of the old city. Beaches here are generally rocky. No sand. The best you can do is pebbles, but where we were was mainly rocks. It's best to use the rubber shoes that are sold pretty much everywhere as flip flops just slip on the rocks and fall off or fall apart. The good news is that the water at every beach we've been to in Croatia is crystal clear, and has lots of fish you can see from the docks. Once you make your way into the water the temperature is perfect and it's a great way to cool off.
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| Walrus on the rocks |
On Saturday, we took an all-day boat tour to Sakura beach which is on Dugi otok (Croatian for "Long Island"). This is a pebble beach with some shade trees and a couple of places to get drinks / food. The boat ride takes 90 min each way, and then a 10 minute walk up a hill to get to where the bus picks up, then a 10 minute ride across the island to a dirt road to walk down to the beach. While this is a relatively inexpensive way to get to this remote place, it's not the easiest way. The rich people go there by speedboat, drop anchor and swim in.
On Sunday, we rented bikes again ( from Dominic... he delivers ) and took a ferry to Preko, a town on Ugljan island, with the ambition to bike down to a pizza place . Didn't quite make it... turned around after 7km and took next ferry back to Zadar.
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