Korcula town is the transport hub of the island, so it's a great place from which to do various day trips. We were going to spend just a couple of nights here and a couple at the nearby island of Mljet, but realised when we got here that it'd be much easier to just do a day trip out there. So we jumped on a little ferry at the crack of dawn and set off.

We had around five hours to see the place, and I thought about hiring out either the Dalmatian car or the mouse car to go cruising hehe, but I was itching for a good bike ride (plus I have no driver's license now after it was stolen with my wallet in Barcelona airport a month ago.

The first thing we encountered after setting off on the bikes was this big beast - a massive wild pig or something equally as ugly! I'm not sure if he was trapped or what, but as I was starting to get concerned for him he suddenly grunted and jumped up, and I shit my pants and hooned off hahaha! We went past this point again on the way back some four hours later but he was nowhere to be seen.

72% of the island is forest, and about six hectares of north-western coastal area (where we were) is national park. In the shots below is a 12th century Benedictine monastary which is no longer in use today, but is for some reason a tourist attraction (that we didn't bother with).

Look at that water - nice! The roads and tracks we followed wound around the coast of various lakes and sea inlets, and through random little villages with people seemingly living the simple life.

Aside from a few houses, apartments, cafes and bars, there wasn't a lot else to see in these little places but they were really quiet and chilled out; it would've been good to stop for a cold one if we'd had more time.

After a couple hours of biking we were ready for a dip, and after a lot of looking (and examining of rock pools hehe) we found a great little cove in one of the inlets and dived on in!

AHHHHH! :)

Not everyone was interested in a nice dip though hehe.

Watch your step.

On a small island with only a thousand inhabitants, tow trucks are little hard to come by ;)

With a nice sore arse from the four-hour ride, we jumped back on the ferry for another 90 minutes of slow boredom.

The following day we did another day-trip, this time just a quick hop over the mainland opposite Korcula to the little port town of Orebic. Home to around 2,000 people, Orebic was noted in Lonely Planet as having some really great beaches which was reason enough for us to come scope the place out!

For example! I whipped out the thunder thighs and went for a paddle ;)

Karlovacko on the beach - nice! :)

We'd had nothing but perfect weather for a week but the forecast was for an upcoming 48-hours of shit, and sure enough - right on cue - the mountains were swallowed up by the dark stuff!

We left the beach and killed a bit of time at a nearby cafe before grabbing some dinner surrounded by more stray animals hehe. I'm a bit of an animal lover and was happy for him to sniff around my empty plate, but Mo is somewhat less compassionate than I am ;)