THE BLUE CAVE

CALENDAR BOYS

YEAH...I KNOW WHAT I'M DOING

Vendors everywhere along the Dalmatian coast hawk trips to the Blue Cave and although the visit inside the actual cave lasts a bit more than 5 minutes it is worth the trek. Visiting the Blue Cave was part of our tour package with Unforgettable Croatia and for us it's yet another freebie!.

Because of the popularity of this venue wait times at the Blue Cave can be long. There is a café for food and drink to bide the time, but our captain of the M/S Infinity, our small luxury cruise ship with Unforgettable Croatia had us there early and there was no wait at all when we arrived just past 8 a.m.

BLUE CAVE ENTRANCE!

The Blue Cave is one of many caves on the small limestone island of Bisevo. An Infinity launch brought us to the dock where we then boarded a small motor boat with a tour guide. When we neared the entrance the tour guide begged us to lower our heads so we can duck beneath the low hanging rocks. The entrance is less than 2 meters high and less than three meters wide. It seemed impossible that we would fit. 

Once through the entrance the guide cuts the engine and walks through the boat to the bow to push us along with an oar as we are bathed in the iridescent blue light of the cave. We are given details and history about how the cave was discovered and how sunlight reflects through the water and off the white sand on the bottom of the cave to give us this beautiful display. We circled the cave quietly, the hushed voices of several tour guides inside the cave at once never impacting the reverence of this experience.  

BLUE CAVE

There is only one entrance and exit to the cave and we had to wait for one boat before we had to lower our heads again to exit into a brilliant sunny day.

LOOKING FOR AUGUST. 

Many of the women on the Infinity have been trading pictures of young handsome Croatian men and were jokingly talking about starting a calendar of their “finds”. Our captain is January…Readers of this blog may recall Oyster Boy. He is February. .

Well… when we emerged from the cave, Ida, our lovely Croatian Cruise Director, also in on the ribald joking, swooned, “Here is my April!” 

All the women in the boat nodded in agreement.

 

OYSTER BOY

Look!   Don’t touch!?

Love to all.