Today was the day we bid farewell to Lopud. No more Ollie Darrington teasing bewildered Croatian waiters or stealing birthday candles because for the next four days we must be self sufficient. Everything was packed in the kayaks and so we set off into the great blue yonder.
This landscape needs to be painted. There are essentially five bands of colour surrounding us. The turquoise sea is the lowest of the bands. Above it is the dark grey rocks which are wet from the waves lapping upon them. Above that is the dry white rock of the cliffs then the green grass of the vegetation on the trees above that. Finally is the pale blue of the sky topping it all off.
About half way through the day, we stopped by a cave to see inside it. While we swam over, we had the opportunity to look at what was actually below us. When you are in a kayak and the water around you is opaque, you think of it almost as solid and that nothing goes on beneath it. However, when you look through it with goggles, you realise that it is a whole new world. Boulders line the surface and in between them long grasses wave about and fish swim about. Hovering above it all, you feel like you are floating above an alien planet. You understand why people spend lifetimes studying it all, learning what lives between the rocks, trying to protect it all from the trawlers and chemicals which use it as a dump.
22 kilometres later, we arrived at our camp site on the mainland town of Zaton. Supper was pasta all round and a well earned night’s sleep is soon to follow. Hopefully the three campsite dogs that refuse to leave us alone for want of food and attention will keep out any unwanted intruders.
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