The forecast has been telling us for some time that the weather would not be as good today. But it depends on what you call good…

The wind was officially classified as sporty gusting spicy. We sailed off downwind under just the genoa with Bernard having a whale of a time surfing behind us.

So the wind was fun, the problem was the thunderstorms, which at least held off for the time we were sailing.

No lunch stop today. As it was not sunny, we decided it was better to get in early, hide from the worst of the weather and explore our destination a bit.

Here are some pictures from previous days swimming.

I don’t recall seeing starfish before but there are loads of them around the area.

Anyway we arrived and were told where our allocated berth was and guess where we are?

Yep… next to the ferry. It left after an hour or two… not sure when it returns..

Anyway we are in Polace which is inside the Miljet national park.

There are lots of walking routes and mountain bike trails here. You can see from this map which also seems to serve as an outdoor youth centre for the locals. They kindly stopped throwing darts while I took the picture.

The park seems to have a range of ways of charging visitors money, including an entrance fee to the trails but there is a student discount so we sent some crew who could credibly claim those to get some pictures.

The thunderstorms turned up properly in the evening.

The lightning kept knocking out the power to the whole town, but the beer pumps in the restaurant don’t need electricity and the kitchen are obviously used to this because they managed to conjure up some excellent food.

Hopefully this storm will blow through overnight.

I wonder what time the first ferry is?