Dubrovnik → Lopud
We slip out of Komolac and down the Rijeka Dubrovačka with the engine ticking over, past the Old Port, which the day boats use for a tender drop but nobody lies to overnight. Eight miles on, Lopud opens up, the second-largest of the inhabited Elaphiti islands and blissfully free of cars. Tie stern-to on the village quay and the afternoon writes itself. Behind the harbour the 15th-century Franciscan monastery guards a thirty-metre bell tower and a sea wall you can walk. Then comes the crossing, half an hour on foot over the spine of the island to Šunj, one of the few real sand beaches on this coast, shallow enough for children to wade out forever. Back at a konoba it is grilled squid and a cold Pošip. Leave the swimming until the light goes soft.
Things to do
Cross to Šunj beach on foot
Tour the 15th-century Franciscan monastery
Order grilled squid at a village konoba
Try a chilled local Pošip white
Climb to the ruined hilltop fort
Mooring tip
Berth stern-to on the town quay and lay your own hook off the bow; the fee is cheap and the middle berths have water and power run to them. Southerlies glance off the headland, but anything out of the north drives straight in, so once it pushes past 18 knots, cross to Šipanska Luka on neighbouring Šipan.
