stray: 2019-01-03 Day 114 Thu

Still windy in the morning. Continuing down the mountain we were amazed at the wind patterns on the sea. In places the wind was hitting the surface vertically and spreading out in a circle! The wind was also whipping water off the flat surface. Quite lovely to sit and watch from a warm vehicle.

At the bottom of the hill we turned Left in a little town called Karlobag and headed south down the Adriatic coast towards Split. We hadn’t gone far when a policeman signaled us to park. Car papers and license was handed over. The road was closed at the flashy orange light with a no entry sign and some writing. John said he saw the light not the sign. Cars were still driving past but open for private cars not trucks. He took the paperwork to boss man in the car.

Came back and said needed to charge us 450Kuna A$100 for disobeying signs But if we pay immediately then it is only half. We asked how come and if it is not paid immediately then it has to go to court to settle and that is expensive so you pay double.

He went back to police car and spoke with Boss and came back asking how long we’d been here we said 4 days but had been here before. He was looking at wrong stamp. Anyway they asked if we knew we had to register we said no. So another fine. We followed him back to the station got a receipt for the first lot of money then had to take the other fine to the back or post office to pay. Bank was closed but post office was open. She checked with her boss if we could pay by card all good Another 800 kuna or close to A$200. Now all we had to do was register.

After a long talk with the tourist office lady it was decided we should try Split as they can not register us without an address. We need to book into camp ground or hotel. Camp grounds are mostly closed.

We had lunch and john got his printing done and by the time our conversations were all over the road was open to trucks. So off we went.