Day 8 Biking and Kayaking near Split

Today was a more relaxed day (by our standards).  We did mountain biking (mostly downhill), kayaking to a secluded beach for a great lunch, laundry, and wandered Split at night.

One thing I can say is that if you have ever considered getting a selfie stick, please don't.  I really want to break every single one of those in half.  The only thing people do with them is take self absorbed pictures while blocking every elses way.  Such a terrible invention!  Also generally Asian  tourists are terrible.  Always taking forever with their cameras and trying to get everyone out of the picture.  If you go to a tourist town you are going to have tourists in your picture and you just need to get over it.  Anyway end of rant on to pictures of the day.

Breakfast was food we got at the grocery store.  We ate it out on the patio

A little after 8 the guys from red adventure http://www.red-adventures.com/  We had to wait forever at the office for the Aussie couple coming with us, (Halley and Micheal) but they did get us a coffe while we were waiting.  We were finally off and drove through Trogir which is a super old town near Split

After Trogir we drove up a hill outside of town were we hopped on the mountain bikes

The mountain biking was maybe not hard for people who bike all the time, but there were actually a lot of rocks and downhills.  Most of the time we had views like this of Split in the distance

Flat part where you can see the walls they built to divide the different land owners

Next stop was kayaking after reaching the bottom.  The sea kayaks were great and they even had a rutter that Zach had to figure out.  Of course of guide insisted that Zach sit in the back so he could steer because girls could never be trusted to steer (Our guide was actually really great, but I have noticed some crazy sexist attitudes around here generally)

We paddled around the pennisula for about 3 miles to this secluded beach where we stopped to swim and have lunch

Our great lunch

All of us enjoyed the stop

Once we were done with lunch and swimming we paddled across the bay to split.  The waves were really bad for a little bit, but it eventually calmed down

Monastery in the hill near the beach where landed

We arrived in Split to pay and then got dropped off at our place.  We quickly hurried to the car rental place because I accidentally took this book with me yesterday.  I managed to sweet talk the guy out of charging us another day since we did actually have the car back in time

After stopping at the car rental place we walked around Split briefly just to see what was around.  Here is the town clock

Since we actually had some downtime (like 4 hours which is a lot for us), we did some laundry at the place near us.  This cute little guy greated us and really only liked chewing his tiny bone on our feet as we folded laundry

Zach folding laundry (yes I did help)

Laundry took a few hours and during that time I managed to book ferry tickets, book the wrong ferry tickets and figure out some logistics for the next few days. Our dinner reservations weren't until 9:30 so we walked around a little, saw the sunset and figured out the ferry for the next day

Dinky enjoying the harbor

Still not quite time for dinner we stopped for ice cream.  I got blueberry and Zach got cherry

Dinner was at Konoba Matejuska.  This is the tuna salad.  We shared two different types of sea food risotto for dinner and it was excellent.  Not so great was the smoke from the grill drifting in, but the food was worth the watery eyes

View of the main promenade on the way back at night

After dinner we had just a little more wine in our rooms while catching up on email and by midnight it was finally time for bed.

Tomorrow we explore Split most of the day and take the ferry to Hvar