Fun & Yum With the Fishes

Our private boat tour let us snorkel all around Dubrovnik to places that we chose. We were on this tour for the whole day, speeding around the islands in our guide Loren’s Cap Camarat. We went to three different islands: Šipan, Lopud, and Koločep. On Lopud our guide dropped us off for lunch. I had zubatac, aka common dentex, for lunch (a fish our photographer friend Samo recommended to us back in Zagreb)! It was the perfect combination of juicy, flakey, and buttery! The fish were very plentiful in and around the spectacular islands and caves along the Dalmatian Coast, as well as on our plates. I definitely think that we watched more fish than we ate around the islands. Most of the fish that we watched while we were snorkeling had large V-shaped tails and were super quick.

One of the best spots on our boat tour was the blue cave. It had a very small opening above the water, but it it widened a ton underneath the surface of the water and became rather large inside the cave’s walls. The cave is very well hidden in the rock face unless you really know what you are looking for. When Mom saw the cave’s opening for the first time she asked our guide “is this actually the cave’s opening or are you playing tricks on us?” I guess Mom was thinking that the cave’s opening would be much larger than it was. Because the opening was so small, I left my snorkel on the boat (but not my mask) to avoid scraping my snorkel or getting bonked on the head with it. When you go inside of the blue cave the water looked like liquid crystalline opal melted all over the place, and left it looking like an underwater ice cave lit by strange blue fire lamps. On the way into the cave, I was actually kind of scared to go through an opening that small, but on the way out I torpedoed through the hole underwater and learned that it was quite voluminous below the surface of the sea. The boat tour of Dubrovnik, in my opinion, was one of the best parts of the whole trip. If you want to book one for yourself, click the link: http://www.dubrovnikexplore.com/.