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On the outer side there is depth enough right by
the head of the pier. Several dozen metres to the
south smaller boats can be pulled out of the water,
but the place is fairly steep. If we have forgotten to
send someone something, it is good to know that
the post office in Njivice is right on the quay,
immediately next to the pier. And next to the post
office, a druggist's. An opportunity to stock up the
medicine chest.
Njivice is known for its camp. The camp too has a
little wharf, but it is only for the camp. The depth
is adequate, but a warning notice warns that
yachtsmen are welcome only in the event of some
emergency.
The camp in Njivice differs from all the other
similar ones that we can encounter on the other
islands, or on nearby Cres, in the kind of trees that
grow here. Instead of the shade of pines, the usual
thing on the islands, here the camp is veiled by the
foliage of a dense oak forest.
In fact, the absence of pine forest, which is the
easiest and most common manner of afforesting
bare spaces, says that Krk is not bothered by
problems of drought. Krk is an island that in its
appearance least of all recalls the usual idea of
island. Vineyards that have not had to crowd in on
the steep slopes, a common feature on the other
islands, recall the plains of the mainland. Sheep
are not penned among stone walls hiding the
grass in the next-door plot from them, because
Krk does not have much of a problem with
pasture. There is plenty of rain, and even the
occasional brook flows through the fertile valleys.
A vivid example is given by Baška, the road to
which winds through a very fruitful valley. And
then, Krk is no longer an actual island, being
linked to the island by an imposing bridge.
A fewmiles after Njivice a very fancy hotel complex
called Haludovo draws our eyes. Themany hotels
stretch along the coast all the way to Malinska,
making the two settlements a single unit. At the
very beginning of Haludovo, in the part called
Ribarsko Selo (Fishermen's Village), there is a
mooring place, a little port that every sailor could
only dreamof. You can tie up here at any part of it,
except right at the end of the pool that the jetty
forms with the land. Here, too, the jetty, as the very
minatory notice affirms, is reserved for hotel
guests. But who is to say that once you have landed
you are not going to become one of their guests?
Malinska. Malinska can be said to be exerting
noticeable efforts into providing a good reception
for yachts. The great embankment that protects
the interior of the port ends a bit further off in the
Rijeka