To celebrate Michael's 32nd birthday on 28 July, we hired a boat to tour the islands and what a good plan it turned out to be. First, however, the villa owner, Marija, brought by a beautiful cake and a bottle of bubbly in the morning. The cake had clearly been finished off with fruit that morning, but had a cheese-cake-like base to it and was glorious!
Our boat was quite basic, but suited our needs. The 'skipper' was all of 15 years old, but had probably been out in boats since his early years. We found out that it was his 16th birthday then next day.
We went to 3 islands in all, including Kolocep and Lopud, and swimming was off the boat for two them, but two had jettys to permit going onshore. Lunch, and an appropriate celebratory drink was enjoyed in Kolocep.
Dan took over as skipper for much of the journey, acquiring new skills, did manage to take us into the Zaton bay to see the villa from the sea, and returned us to the inlet where we had started, all without mishap - well, nearly, it ran out of fuel just as he handed over on our arrival (we did have another jerrycan).
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