Not unsurprisingly, when you think about it, sailing around islands you see a lot of ferries. We fully understand that without them would be no beer in the bars but they can be a bit of a pain.

This one is a brute… must be doing 30 knots and goes from a small thing in the distance to several thousand tons of noisy steel really quickly

We were woken by another ferry (a car ferry) this morning as it docked next to our boat… this island is very lucky that the first ferry is at 6AM.

Just got back to sleep to be woken by a tapping noise at our cabin window.

We sailed a little further north in the same group of islands (the Elafiti islands) that we had spent the night in and found a great spot to anchor, quite a few other people had the same idea so it was a bit interesting finding a safe spot but we had a great swim and lunch.

If you want to know a bit about the Elafiti islands the restaurant we were in last night doubles as a tourist information point, so you can learn more of their dubious claims to fame here.

Tonight’s restaurant is in Okuklje on the Island of Mljet. The  pontoon is described as rustic….

This flotilla company like to lay on compulsory fun in the evenings and tonight’s activity is a tender rowing race. The person rowing has to be blindfolded and someone else has to navigate and tell them which way to go. Obviously, it would not have been fair on the others if I had taken part so we sent out some of the younger crew and Bernard. If you look closely you can see our tender facing the wrong way.. having Bernard navigate was probably a poor choice, but once one of the oar mountings broke this became academic…

Dinner in a brilliant restaurant inexplicably on the opposite side of the bay from their mooring pontoon.

But no ferries…