Skradin to Rab

A very different and interesting week in the Kornat national park and nearby islands. We headed out from Skradin, down the spectacular Krka river, after a little incident with a charter boat which lost control as it left the pontoon in strong winds and hit our bow taking a chunk out the gelcoat - managed to patch it up by hanging over the bow as Helen mixed the gelcoat filler and passed it down to me - repair doesn’t look to professional but it will do the job until we get home. Anyway, just an example to explain why we dislike sailing where there are lots of charter boats!! We set off fully provisioned, fuel and water topped up, batteries fully charged etc as we knew we’d probably not find any shops, not be able to get water, not have shore power electricity for the week in the outlying islands - many are uninhabited and the few that are, only for the summer and with only a very few houses and a restaurant or two in the popular bays. Some wonderfully unspoilt places and a lovely raw, bleak beauty (almost a moonscape). Just for the record*, we visited Smokvica (Lovely restaurant Piccolo and great walks/views), Kameni Zakan, Kornat (Vrulje), Levrnaka (U Lojeni) (beautifully quiet unspoilt anchorage), Dugi Otok (Bozava), and Premuda (Krijal).