Dropping Anchor in Okrug Gornji, Croatia
Something strange has happened since we ground to a halt at Camping Rožac in Okrug Gornji (N43.50524, E16.25766). We’ve been here over a week, so it’s now the place we’ve stayed the longest in, but the strange thing is that neither of us have itchy feet to get moving again.
When we parked up here we decided to stay for a while, and use it as a chance to have some post delivered to us. The first of our two parcels arrived yesterday and I felt a little sad. When the other one gets here we have no excuse to stay any longer.
Delivery one – our 2016 French version of Camperstop
We haven’t written many updates, as we haven’t really done much. The weather has been getting slowly warmer and should reach 24°c today before the spell is broken with rain for the next couple of days. Our days have been spent swathed in factor 50 sunscreen, sitting between the sunshine and shade. We’ve read books, looked over maps and relaxed. Jay has taken Bob the Kayak out a few times to survey the surroundings and has snorkelled every day in his wetsuit (the water isn’t quite warm enough yet for swimming. He even brought back tea one night – transforming the mussels he’d picked into Moules Marinière.
Even our fridge has noticed the change, its contents have changed from heavy pumpkin-filled pasta and pepper-coated sausage to light summer salads. Hot drinks have been replaced with iced water from the fridge, and the robust red wines have been put aside for chilled white and rosé. It’s hard to believe that just a month ago we were in the snow with the heating on all day and night. We seem to have skipped spring and gone straight into summer.
Summer is here – Charlie gets a fur cut
We’ve wandered over to Trogir a couple of times
There are only a few vans on the campsite at the moment, others come and go, but there is a core of four of us who haven’t moved and have got know each other swapping stories in the evenings over Lidl Briks, bottles of local beer (from here and home countries) and bottles of Croatian wine.
Yesterday morning there was almost hubbub on the site, everyone (all 10 of us) gathered on the beach to watch dolphins (please correct me if you can tell what they are from the photos) swimming around the bay in front of us – a real privilege to see.
Dolphin watching with a morning brew
We’re certainly going to stay here until after the weekend, then depending on when parcel two arrives (our ACSI card) we’ll have to reluctantly pull up our anchor and move along. Nordkap is a long, long way off and we have many more miles to do.
These chaps keep Charlie on his toes during the day – luckily he’s too slow to catch one
The view from our door – can you see why we’re reluctant to leave.
Ju x
Fabulous!
Oh oh oh, blue skies and sun! Lovely. Right to just stay for a while and relax!
Sunny and 20 degrees last Sunday, down to 5 degrees, grey skies and rain, today! Help, Spring, where are you?
Norway will still be there next year – or the year after!
I guess Spring must be further down the road. As long as it’s sunny and warm, you might as well enjoy it. Not a schedule are you ?
Bog !! Let me get this right, €15 pn, 20°+, million pound view and you’re earning whilst lazing about? ..I’d be putting up a picket fence! 😁 kindest.. Wayne.
Hi Both
You asked if we did any metal detecting when we came in April 2015 – we didn’t to any degree. Every beach we stopped at was full of stones and was just too difficult to search in the water. So, we just chilled for 5 weeks :-)
Fabulous! Love it. :-) there doesn’t seem to be a great deal of sand knocking about the place.