Croatia - Krka National Park

Went to Krka National Park with Ivi and Irena, and their children Ivana, Luka and Marin. Ivi drove first to the town of Sibenik where we took the ferry to the Park office in Skradinski Buk. We walked around the area but did not really have time to swim in the lovely waters. Croation waters, I never fail to tell anyone this, are beautiful. Whether it's rivers or waterfalls or the Adriatic. Crystal clear.

The waterfalls in the National Park come in all sizes. There's the majestic multi-tiered main falls, the little rivulets, the ones emerging from between buildings (actually I think they are old flour mills). There is even the second oldest hydroelectricity plant in the world built with the assistance of Tesla, a Croatian. Not functional anymore though.

The area is also full of life in the summer when I was there. Iridescent green and blue dragonflies, frogs, reed warblers and chaffinches singing their hearts out. And lots of fish in the streams. Trout perhaps.

We also drove round to Roski Slap, another area of more waterfalls and also saw the quaint monastery on tiny Visovac island in the middle of a river.

(I hope I got the place names correct. It has been a little while ago.)