The pointed tip
The shape that made it Croatia's most famous image.
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It is if you want a day on an island rather than two hours on a beach. The realistic arithmetic: about fifty minutes by ferry to Supetar, then about an hour overland to Bol across the island, then a twenty-minute walk or a small tourist train to the beach. A direct fast boat to Bol saves more than half of that and is the better option if one runs in your season.
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Zlatni Rat is Croatia's most famous beach and its most photographed: a tongue of white shingle running about half a kilometre out to sea from the coast of Brač near the town of Bol, ending in a sharp point. What is exceptional about it is that it moves. The spit is not fixed land but a deposit of shingle shaped by currents and wind, and its tip swings right or left with the seasons and the prevailing wind, and can change shape entirely after a strong storm. The picture you have seen of the beach is not necessarily its shape on the day you visit. The shingle is fine, the water clear and relatively deep quite quickly, and the two sides differ: one is calmer, the other favoured for windsurfing because of the regular afternoon maestral wind. Access from Split is by ferry to Supetar and then overland, or by direct fast boat to Bol — a full day out.
The shape that made it Croatia's most famous image.
A regular afternoon wind, good for windsurfing.
Bol, island of Brac, 21420