Grotta Azura

Day 7 (Tuesday)

Today we booked ourselves on a day long boat trip to see the Blue Cave on the islet of Bisevo.  It has been a tourist attraction since the 1880s, when a minor Viennese painter, Eugen Von Ransonnet-Villet, dynamited the entrance to the cave to widen it for boat access.  Quite what a minor Viennese painter was doing with dynamite I don’t know.

We caught a boat over to Bisevo and there we waited for a smaller boat to take us into the cave.  The cave is beautiful, water filtered light shines in through a submerged side entrance bathing the whole cave in a shimmering blue light.

There was much clambering over wildly bobbing boats to reach the quayside and miraculously neither of us or anyone else fell in.  After the visit to the Blue Cave we got back onto the boat for a trip around the island ending up at a beautiful sandy cove where we spent the rest of the day doing what now comes naturally, swimming, reading and relaxing.

We returned to Komiza harbour at about 5.30pm and had time for a quick nap, well we had had a busy day, before showering and going out for some supper.  For those of you of a nervous disposition, look away now.

 Tonight’s supper was chosen from a chiller full of fish and our waiter described them to us in such detail that it almost felt like we should have named before they were cooked.  Anyway, they were delicious even though I still could not tell you what they were.

Entering the Blue Cave

 Inside the Blue Cave

 Beach on Islet of Bisevo