Aug 14 - Odette has a low fever, but is in a cheery mood and we already paid for a boat trip today, so off we go. It is a 3-4 hour excursion in a speedboat. I booked the 9:00 departure, in hopes that most tourists can’t drag themselves out of bed early enough to be out on the bay at that time.
The cruise ship from yesterday is gone, but another is just now chugging into port. Our speedboat could probably hold twenty, but there are only 15 of us. Part of the reason I wanted to do this was just to be able to visualize the bay and surrounding mountains, which is difficult to do from the narrow shores. The bay itself is a submerged canyon, having filled in with seawater from the end of the last ice age. If we were in Norway, it would be called a fjord.
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The next stop was one of the three submarine bunkers blasted into the steep shoreline.
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The last stop was one of the many sea caves in the region, similar to the ones we went to near Dubrovnik.
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After this we find some cheap lunch in Kotor and let Odette rest for the remainder of the day. It is Sunday so not many businesses open, including the grocery stores.
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