28 May 2023 - Luka Skrivena

This was another morning to get up to a clear blue sky in a beautiful bay.

We needed bread, so rowed ashore in the tender, visited the bakery, had a coffee in Pavo’s restaurant and said our farewells to our friends.

After a Sunday treat of croissants for breakfast, we slipped lines and headed out of the bay. Today had a good wind forecast for us to sail to Lastovo, but for the first couple of hours we didn’t make a great deal of progress in the light airs. That gave us chance to chat to Henry. I always delight in being able to talk on the phone, while we are in transit.

 

There is a very prominent lighthouse near the entrance to the bay


The wind picked up and we had an excellent upwind sail, tacking towards our destination. We arrived in the Luka Skrivena a little after 5.00pm. There are mooring buoys here with bazaar configurations, but we found one we could attach to without one of us having go for a swim to complete the process. Steve is an expert a lassoing the buoy first of all, and then, provided we don’t loose the hold with the lasso, we can thread a couple of lines properly through the eye of the rope attached to the buoy. Steve watched a boat come in just before nightfall, in horrified fascination at just how incompetent they were. As it’s Sunday, its probably their first day out on a charter boat. It’s a very difficult process for the two of us, to attach to buoys that are not set up to make it easy for you, but how six big blokes make it so much more so, is quite concerning. As long as they don’t come near us, we’ll be ok.

We had a really nice chat with the park rangers, when they came to collect the national park and buoy fees. They told us that people often complain about having to pay a park fee, but we are happy to, assuming the money goes to the upkeep of the park. Here there was a lot of plastic in the water. Apparently the authorities employ students in the summer to clean the beaches. Roll on them getting to it.

Miles today           29

Miles in 2023     585

Tricia (& Steve)

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