Day 3 of Sailing: Komiza with a stop at the Blue Caves Then On to Budikovac

Today we had an earlier start to get to the Blue Caves. When leaving the med Mooring I learned to always check the Mooring lines that are on the boat for knots. Somehow mine had a large knot at the end of the line and got stuck under the plank of our neighbor boat. Thankfully no wind, so our boat did not get pushed into the neighbor boat and he was able to get it out. It was an interesting conversation with the neighbors because we both didn’t speak each other’s native tongue.

The Blue Caves are accessed by little wooden taxi boats only. You moor if you are in a sailboat on Mooring balls and the taxi comes and picks you up. The other option is to take a taxi to the island and get in a long line and they taxi you out to the island. You can not ride the dingy into the island, only the taxis can do that.

We had to wait a couple hours for a taxi to get us. It is hard for the drivers to know who was there first, so be prepared to possibly wait a while. The kids had a snack and swam while waiting.

The taxi came and picked us up along with a neighbor boat who was waiting a long time as well. Everyone was excited to be on the boat over to the Caves.

Once at the entrance to the cave, you need to pay an entrance fee before you enter. You need to duck down in the boat so that you don’t get hit in the head. The entrance is tight and there are a few other boats in the cave circling the blue grotto.

When we exited the cave (inside the cave for about 10 minutes) our driver took us to see the original entrance to the cave.

The man who found it was a painter and crawled in to discover it. He took us back to our boat, we quickly jumped in to the water and were off.

We then sailed to Budikovac. The ride was stunning and we went along beautiful shoreline with huge rock walls.

Budikovac was a sweet nature preserve type setting with one home on the island that also serves as a restaurant and a vineyard. We swam in and just had a glass of the red wine from their vineyard. The kids had ice tea or apple juice.

We did a lot of snorkeling here and the kids discovered if you throw crumbs off the back of the boat these beautiful blue fish come and eat the crumbs. The kids had a blast swimming with them.