Sibenik - Krka river
comes a time, long cruises in the summer when the sun beats down,
relentlessly from dawn to dusk in the sky cloudless skies, with no minimum
puff of wind, crew schedules as someone who would
nice to be in the mountains, a valley in the Dolomites, between woods and sources
to enjoy the coolness of a cascade of fresh water frozen in the pines.
Well, if you are in Dalmatia, from portions of Sibenik,
can fulfill this desire without leaving the boat, one of the most fascinating and unusual
in sailing.
Our itinerary starts at the mouth of the channel Svetog
ANTE-43 ° 43'27''N-15 ° 50'99''E-a narrow stretch of sea, (
reported to his mouth from a lighthouse on the Left and Right in a Venetian fort, (similar to the strong
of St. Andrew in the lagoon of Venice) wide no more than a hundred meters
, that, after 1.5 nm. ends in a kind of salt lake where
overlooking the city of Sibenik.
Sibenik Sibenik-43 ° 44'00''N-15 ° 53'43''E-Old Venetian walled city,
perched on a hill, stands out for its white marble monuments
certainly deserve ' a more thorough visit. You can moor along the quay
along the seafront in a number of points and refueling
oil to the distributor. There is also a beautiful open-air market,
the outskirts of the town, where supplies of fresh fish and vegetables.
Leaving Sibenik, continue to the NW, in like a lake dotted,
on the banks of mussels and oysters farming family where you can easily
supply of shellfish for the galley, for 2.5 nm. until you pass under the big bridge
the coastal road (it has a clearance of at least 25 m.
and not an obstacle to navigation) and then reached after 0.7 nm
other a fork, continuing to SX reach the village of Zaton, after about 0.5
nm.mentre to Dx along the river Krka
ZATON-43 ° 47'12''N-15 ° 49'43''E-Place at the bottom
a narrow inlet of the Krka river, the country is sparsely touristicization, away from the main road
and ignored by most of the sailors who continue
the return of the River. There is, on your right, where a wharf berth, making
attention to the seabed, which does not exceed 2.5 m.Lungo the bay is a beautiful
walk on a narrow green that runs along the bay, ideal for
stretch your legs after hours of browsing. At the bottom of the bay, the pier
, there is a restaurant, "Porat" where you can stop for a dinner
of shellfish and grilled scarpene and San Pieri.
instead Continuing up the river from the junction towards the north, take a
narrow fjord, almost a gorge between two cliffs carved into the limestone
from the river and after about 1.2 nm. We enter the Prokljansko, a deep lake
from 5 to 20 m, a length of about 3 nm. X 1.5 nm., Well exposed to the Mistral and Scirocco
, which would be an ideal field for racing dinghies.
In cross the lake should lead to a promontory
43 ° 48'45''N-15 ° 52'96''E and not fooled by the creek that leads to the village of
Vrulje, overlooking the lake, where there are very shallow.
Here the river narrows and takes on an almost mountainous, with grassy banks
, reed beds and pine forests, until, after 2 nm. the country of
Scardona-Skradin.
Scardona-Skradin-43 ° 49'01''N-15 ° 55'47''E-When, after a last bend of the river
, it seems an Austrian mountain village, with houses of
stone and the bell onion, green lawns and gardens with rows of
potatoes, bean plants and trees of apples, pears and plums. It
moored at Marina ACI, with floating docks, or 2-3
vacancies on the dock (though you look bad), the country is fascinating, collected on
river, shaded by large mulberry trees, where they land
the boats of fishermen who will sell regardless of squid or shrimp
like a trout or a pike. Here, up to a couple of years ago, there was the cellar
Mate, marked by an old time, in a cave between barrels and
junk, sold his wine, with ham, homemade bread
rubbed with fresh garlic, freshly harvested garden, and in the meantime you
told of the war, the Serbs perched on the mountain above the village of
thousands of shells fell and roofs of the houses completely destroyed, the cemetery
with the graves demolished by bombs and the Serbs who lived in
country driven out of their neighborhood destroyed the Orthodox Church
burned and how beautiful it was to live there before, when everyone lived in peace
. Now there's Mate, the last time I was there two years ago
we went, as always, in his house and we started screaming for
call it, and bring him down and open the cellar . It is facing a
old and we said "Mate there is not, is in hospital with cancer." After
then are no longer returned to Skradin but I'm sure the place is not the most
stesso.Lungo the road that leads from the pier the church, there is
restaurant Slatni Skolike "where you can eat some good seafood and
magnificent grilled seafood.
The main reason why people are usually Skradin
is to visit the waterfalls of Krka National Park, located a little further upstream
along the river, about 3 km, is reached by boat that leaves
by country or (which I highly recommend) walk along a path that runs along the shore
. To visit the park you pay an entrance fee and
you can enter in a myriad of trails that wind through the woods between
the dozens of waterfalls and lakes dotted with trout and grayling and jump
of water that make up the complex. Do not miss a visit to the ancient water mill
, working, where a guide shows how the grain was ground
and how the clothes were washed in a washing machine water.
upstream of the falls, the river forms a lake with reeds and willows
that sprout from the water in a kind of "our local Florida, where
boats leave, go up the river, along an uninhabited valley
wild and full of marsh birds, to reach the Franciscan monastery
Visovac, an oasis of peace in a island in the river, to the waterfalls
Roski Slap, where he completed the course of the river and waterway
where you can grab a snack, in an old mill, with wine, goat cheese and slices of bread and
bacon and ham.
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