Kornati National Park

The Kornati National Park is a tight cluster of 89 mostly uninhabited islands, islets, and reefs spread over about 220 sq km off the western shore of Murter. The seaward sides of the islands fall away as bare white limestone cliffs — the krune, or crowns — that drop 60 metres or more straight into deep blue water. The leeward sides hold sheltered coves with terraced olive groves and the occasional stone hut.

Day boats run from Murter town and Jezera in season for around 350 kuna per person, usually including lunch at one of the konobas inside the park. A skippered yacht charter is the better way to see it. Diving is excellent and tightly regulated — there are around twenty designated dive sites, all booked through the park authority.

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A story
George Bernard Shaw, who sailed through the Kornati in 1929, is supposed to have written that 'on the last day of Creation, God desired to crown his work and thus created the Kornati islands out of tears, stars and breath.' The line is endlessly repeated on Croatian tourist literature and almost certainly apocryphal — there is no record of it in Shaw's letters.