30 May 2023 - Luka Jurjeva, Lastovo

We never cease to be amused and sometimes bewildered by “Port Theatre”.  The bay we are in has two small quays and one has various notices advising people not to moor there.  However, 2 boats had chosen to ignore this and spent the night at the quay. Early the next morning, as we had suspected might happen, two large tourist boats appeared.  We have seen these here before as they bring people of cycling trips. Anyway, the first of the tourist boats blasted its horn a number of times, firmly giving the message to “get out of the way”. I don’t think that the folks on one of the boats were actually awake when this happened, but they started pouring out onto deck reasonably quickly and soon started to move their boat away from the quay.  The crew of the other boat had obviously gone for a walk, as we saw them running back along the path at the waterside.  They too managed to get their boat moving quite quickly. Both of the moored boats then headed straight off, without the sort of preparations and checks that one would normally expect.


Once this drama was over, we went ashore in the dinghy, first going to see the submarine pen in the next bay again.  It was good to give the outboard a good exercise and for it to get completely warmed through. Often, it is started and then only runs for a few minutes before we arrive at the shore and we never get the choke completely in.

Once ashore we had a coffee and then walked through to the bay on the other side of the island.  We went as far as the end of the path before turning back. On our return journey, we met a fisherman who we had just seen coming in. We asked if we could buy fish directly from him, but he said that all of his catch was promised to a restaurant.  Shame.  No fish for us tonight then.









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Steve (& Tricia)

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