Today we played a game with sea conditions, weather and tourism…. and won! The blue cave is a popular tourist attraction on an island (Beševo) a long way from the mainland. 12 people live on this island. The Blue Cave can only be entered in a small boat, operated by a tour company – and only in flat sea conditions. We left Trogir early in a fleet of ships and small boats all headed for Biševo. We stopped for a swim and lunch when we discovered the wait was 300 people! but the bet worked out as when we arrived in the afternoon, the line was short and conditions still favourable. [Side note: swimming in the Adriatic is beautiful – the water is clear, deep and warm, and salty so little effort is needed to stay afloat.]
The tiny port was a hive of activity with larger ships like ours coming in one after the other to drop passengers before reversing out, and little boats zooming everywhere around the big ones. The dude in charge on the jetty was surprisingly calm (but bossy!).
To get into the Blue Cave, it is ten people per small boat and everyone has to duck down as the boat goes through a small opening that was blasted to allow access. The drivers turn off engines inside and use poles to move us around the cave. I can’t be arsed explaining (remembering) how it all works (physics and light), but the colour was pretty spectacular.
We overnighted on the Island of Vis in the town of Vis. This is the farthest inhabited island off the Croatia mainland – and the least developed. It was lovely, my favourite so far. Small, quiet and cute. Great gelato, bikes left everywhere unattended, and lots and lots of catamarans and yachts tied up and moored. It’s claim to fame is that the Mamma Mia 2 movie was filmed here, so we visited some of the locations in town! I also found some good margaritas and ended the night with dancing to 80s music on the back of our ship with a bunch of other passengers! ….I’m going back to bed for a nap after I post this one 🙂
