Great set of adventure and beauty  today  on day 2 of our sail with Tomaz. .. we visited 4 differnt cave-like things.. two natural.. and 2 very unnatural relics from the cold war. and a little drama.. gabe hurt his knee.. but is doing alright. More on that alter.

 

 

first stop was this very cool two entry sea cave

 

there were quite a few other boats there… so we waited our turn. We paddled in in the dinghy

 

we pulled to the back ad placed a SamStone

 

cool mineral colors !

heres the view lookign out.. there were two entrances and a big column between them

 

ohter boats kept showing up

 

the coolest thing was this shaft of light through a hole in the cave ceiling .. 

 

here diane and I are in the beam

 

look at the color of the water when the beam hits there !

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that light bounced up into the rocks of the celining.. I have a movie of it too

 

next step was this wierd inlet..

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next stop was ‘the blue whole’ another sun light sea cavern. This guy ain a boat was tryign to charge us 200 kuna to go.. we settled for 100 kua and a cold beer.

 

insie was the craziest blue light as sun filtered through and underwater opening

 

other folkswere in there twoo.. just one other boat at first

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then back on the boat.. we had a playful dolphin following uis. you can barely see his dorasl flipper in this picture.

 

then soem knot tying. demos.. Max is pretty fab !

 

then we got near the old sub base at Vis.. it was built during the cold war to protect yugoslovia.. lots of abandonded buildings..

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darn.. a huge catermeran waspulled up inside there for the night.. 

max weighed anchor

 

gabe jumbed from the dinghy to shore..

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uhuh.. he got snagged on a huge spike of metal.. it was deep..

 

we got to shore.. cpulled it out and cleaned him up. and put on antibiotic. He didn’t even complain.. he was amazing..

 

max id the pulling and showed gabe the metal thing.. ouch !!

 

soemof gabes blood.. ughhhhh

 

gabe felt ok.. so we explored the sub garage..

 

inside there were rooms and tunnels.. for folks to get in and out. These were build back in the 60s and 70s.. and never used in warefare as far as we know

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we came out to a nice veiew of the moon and tomaz’s boat

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then back in. to get to the other side

 

met this 3 inch spider

 

from there we clibed up to some old bunkers.

 

at tht poitn my batteries gave up.. but we ended up discovering the entrance to this amazing set of abandoneded tunnels in the hills.. they were hundered of meters long.. and came out t to at least 5 gun placements pil boxes.. I will get the pics from gabe and max tomorrow

 

from thee we walked back to the boat and cooked an amazing meal.. grilled meet fo rthe kids and tomas.. and greilled chese (alal Halumi) for diane and me.. so good !

 

now getting ready to sleep.. more from the boat tomorrow

nite all. note sam

-me

 

hi from a boat moored in a bay off of pactklini octi.. ‘hells island’ soemwhere off the coast of croatia. I only hae enought bandwidth to post if I hold my phone in the air 🙂 We’re having a great time on Tomaz’s boat..

THis morning we left dubrovnick.. such a great stay.. i ran into a bunch of fake doctors hving soem sort of mixed drink party at 9:30 m on  tuesday morning  when I wnet to get our car. … whata  crazy country.

 

we made the 4 hour drive to split… which was beutifull..

 

then met tomaz off shore behind the hotel where we rented the car.

 

here’s our home for the next 3 days 🙂

 

bye bye split !

 

our captian brave an sure !

 

coming in to the idsland about 7:30

 

 

rowing to shore for dinner

 

 

a couple of km walk to dinner

 

 

then a row back out to the boat after much wine 🙂

 

now gently rocking to sleep 🙂

 

more tomorrow !

nite all, nite sam

-me

 

Just learned that the Kindgdom of Ragusa is what Dubrovik used to be called. .. Such an amazing place.. so much history.    We had a pretty low key day here. we took a walk to the north harbor at Gruz to shop for ssih.. but the market was already closed. Still it was a nice walk

 

we found a cool outdoor gym

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mmmmm.. pancetta !

 

then 30 minutes walk back home.. we all fell asleep in the sun behind our airbnb (top floor here) 

 

the boys thought they saw a loating suitcase.. turned out to be a garbage can.. but they went and retreived it !..

cold water !

 

next adventur was climbg the hill where the cable car went. It was a lonnnnnng way !

 

there were 14 very cool bornzes of the stations of the cross place on the steep trail

about 90 min later we were on top at the cool old napoleonic castle

 

we made it just at sunset .. so cool !

 

max put a samstone up there

 

we took the cable car down.. it was getting dark

 

then another great dinner in the old city !.. wonderful day !

 

tomorrow we eave dubrovnick…

we’ve really enjoyed it.. what a sweet place !

nite all, note  sam

-jc

 

Wonderful day with my family in Dubrovnik.. THe place is crowded and beutiful. We spent our time finding places where the crowds werent.. no small trick

 

Before all the pics from today. a few from last night. Gabe, max and I went and walked around the city until abotu 2am.. Max and gabe went back out until about 4AM.. it was so great seeing theplace without so many people !

Here’s the castle behind us… It was used as ‘Kings landing’ in Game of thrones’   which was partially filmed here.

 

 

 

look how shiney the main street (Placa) is from so many hundereds of years of visitors.

\these stairs were used as ‘The Walk of Shame’ in Game of Thrones.’ 

 

so great being out with my boys late at night !

 

went back home and I slept till 9 AM !  latest I’ve slept in recent memory.. the boys.. both jetlagged.. slept well past 11

by the time we ate.. it was noon.. a busy time to enter the old city

 

 

eeeeek !

 

first scene was a mass of bees on a stone wall.. how wierd.. are they Wall-o-bees ?

 

then a tour of the museum of pharmecy.. most memorable there.. here’s a shell impact from the 1991 war

 

the chrch next door

 

then the old synagoge.. moving display of the lead up tot eh holocost

 

my phones attempt to translate the order that Jews must wear armbands..

 

then a late lunch or early dinner.. yum !

 

squid ink rissoto!

 

lunch involved several tour groups.

 

then more walking

a wedding !

 

we started the walk aroudn the wall at 5..   first.. a nap!

 

there are still damaged buildings from the 1991 war.

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another Game of THrones Scene identified  .. “the house of the undying’

 

 

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the main street from the wall

 

the map of all the buildings damaged in teh 1991 war.. 70% had damaged roofs !

 

another game of thrones scene sight

 

heading out.. we came across a beekeeper who was moing the bee swarm we saw earlier.. Very cool closure to the day

 

 

wow.. so many pictures.. hope no one minds.. what an amazing place to visit.

more tomorrow !
nite all, nite sam

-me