Clouds meant that the sun only made an appearance after it was well risen.
Either
sailing schools or charter companies are using this bay on Zut for circuits and
bumps. This morning the lesson was obviously alongside parking and springing
off the pontoon. I’m guessing the students really hadn’t done this before
because they weren’t great at it. Hopefully they will get lots more practice so
they improve.
A
small motor boat arrived at the main quay, dropped off empty wheelie bins and
collected the full ones. This was obviously the bin men boat.
We
pumped up the dinghy and rowed to a tiny little harbour, if you could call it
that, on the south side of the bay. There is a group of houses on the shore,
some derelict, so we hoped there might be a path nearby. We had in mind to
climb the hill behind the marina, but having read some of the marina reviews on
Navily (Tripadvisor for boats), we though they might be rather sniffy about us
taking the tender to their pontoon, having anchored and not paid for mooring.
Unfortunately from where we landed, we couldn’t find a path, having scrabbled up
the hillside. There are tiers of dry stone walls, with gaps in them to enable
you to get through more easily than ascending each wall. We had almost reached
the summit of this peninsular, but couldn’t find a path, so abandoned our idea
to go any further.
Around
midday, we slipped anchor and were on our way to travel about 15miles north, to
a little island of Rava, off the east coast of Dugi Otuk. There was no wind and
a glassy sea, so we motored all the way. We had more entertainment from the
fire planes picking up water, quite near us, during part of the journey.
We passed several fish farms and then found the channel beside Dugi Otuk very pretty.
There
were three bays to choose from and we went for the middle one, because the
ground around the bay is a little higher than the others and will give us
better shelter from some east wind we are expecting in the night. The bay is
full of mooring buoys but, the only other boat is small motor boat, that
arrived very quietly after dark. It is beautifully peaceful and quiet. Nobody
has come to collect money.
Miles Today - 16
Miles 2022 – 1415
Tricia (and Steve)
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