One day · one bay
Boat trips
Day-trip destinations you can reach by speedboat, RIB or sailboat. Each one tells you where to start from, how many miles it is and what to watch out for when you get there.
- 01
The Blue Cave on Biševo
The best-known sea cave on the Adriatic, five miles from Komiža. Around noon the sun fills it with blue light through an underwater opening.
Departure points: Komiža, Vis, Hvar, Split · approx. 5 NM (Komiža)
Open trip - 02
The Blue Lagoon at Drvenik Veli
The shallow turquoise bay of Krknjaši between Drvenik Veli and two islets, six miles from Trogir: the most popular half-day trip in central Dalmatia.
Departure points: Trogir, Split · approx. 6 NM (Trogir)
Open trip - 03
The Pakleni islands off Hvar
A chain of some twenty islets just off Hvar harbour: turquoise bays, Palmižana and Vinogradišće, restaurants under the pines and swimming from spring to autumn.
Departure points: Hvar · approx. 2 NM (Hvar)
Open trip - 04
Zlatni rat and Bol
A shingle spit that changes shape with the wind and the current, the best-known beach on the Adriatic, and Bol below Vidova gora on the south coast of Brač.
Departure points: Split, Makarska, Jelsa · approx. 7 NM (Jelsa)
Open trip - 05
Kornati National Park
An archipelago of almost ninety islands, islets and rocks: bare stone, dry-stone walls, cliffs above the open sea and bays with konobas reached only by sea.
Departure points: Murter, Biograd na Moru, Zadar, Vodice · approx. 18 NM (Murter)
Open trip - 06
Telašćica and Sakarun beach
A bay in the south of Dugi otok with cliffs 161 metres high and the salt lake Mir, and Sakarun, a sandy beach in the island's north-west.
Departure points: Zadar, Sali, Biograd na Moru · approx. 7 NM (Sali)
Open trip - 07
Up the Krka river to Skradin
A passage from the sea into a river: through the Sveti Ante channel, up the Krka canyon and across Lake Prokljan to Skradin, the gateway to Krka National Park.
Departure points: Šibenik, Vodice · approx. 8 NM (Šibenik)
Open trip - 08
The Elafiti islands: Koločep, Lopud and Šipan
Three inhabited islands off Dubrovnik, uncrowded and almost car-free: sandy Šunj, the summer villas of the Dubrovnik nobility and pine woods.
Departure points: Dubrovnik · approx. 6 NM (Dubrovnik)
Open trip - 09
Mljet National Park
Two salt lakes in the middle of a pine forest and a Benedictine monastery on an islet: the western part of Mljet, reached by boat from Dubrovnik or Korčula.
Departure points: Dubrovnik, Korčula · approx. 14 NM (Korčula)
Open trip - 10
Brijuni National Park
Fourteen islands off Fažana: a Roman villa in Verige bay, a safari park and parkland, with the strictest navigation rules on the Adriatic.
Departure points: Fažana, Pula · approx. 2 NM (Fažana)
Open trip - 11
Limski kanal (Lim Bay)
A bay almost thirteen kilometres long cut into the Istrian coast between Rovinj and Vrsar: steep green sides, shellfish farms and Romuald's Cave.
Departure points: Rovinj, Vrsar, Poreč · approx. 7 NM (Vrsar)
Open trip - 12
Around Vis: Stiniva, Budikovac and the Green Cave
The south coast of Vis in a day: Stiniva cove closed in by cliffs, the shallows at Budikovac and the Green Cave on the islet of Ravnik.
Departure points: Vis, Komiža, Hvar · approx. 8 NM (Komiža)
Open trip - 13
The Blue Grotto and the beach below Lubenice
A sea cave on the west coast of Cres that you enter by swimming, and a pebble beach below the village of Lubenice that is easiest to reach by boat.
Departure points: Cres, Mali Lošinj · approx. 10 NM (Cres)
Open trip
Travel time is calculated at about 25 knots for a speedboat and about 6 knots for a sailboat, without stops.
Safety
Emergency at sea
Croatia's national maritime search and rescue coordination centre (MRCC Rijeka) is on watch 24 hours a day. Save the number before you set off.
- 195Maritime search and rescue
- VHF 16Distress and safety calls
- 112Single emergency number
Before you call, have ready the boat's position (coordinates or the nearest headland, island or bay), the number of people on board and a description of the problem. A call to 112 is put through to the maritime rescue centre.
Get out on the water yourself
Find a boat directly from its owner and arrange the rental with no commission.
The information is for guidance only and does not replace official nautical charts, pilot books or forecasts. Check the current conditions and regulations before you set off.