Stiniva Cove
Zlahatina is in the foreground
43°1’14.17″ N 16°10’19.9″ E
This is a narrow, fjord-like, cove on the south shore of Vis Island. Near the end of the cove the cliffs don’t quite come together and through this gap is a second, hidden cove! This second cove is like a large pool with small waves lapping up on a steep, pebble shore and a couple little fishing shacks. A little, wooden row-boat is left anchored to the beach. The terrain in back of the beach runs back a bit then becomes steep and rocky with thickets of small pine trees and yucca plants.
The cliffs in the main cove pictured here plunge into the water quite a ways, making anchoring here a bit tricky. I thinks we paid out 35 meters of chain off the bow while our stern was only in a couple meters. It was necessary to take a stern line ashore and wrap it around whatever knobs of rock we could take advantage of. After lunch we rested and swam around.
If you zoom in on the satellite photo, you can see the ‘secondary bay’ at the end of the main inlet. If you zoom out, you can see just how many coves one can choose to visit!