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| Bay of Kotor circled in blue |
The natural beauty seem so intensely packed along this stretch of the Dalmatian coast. Yes I have wondered about the name too! It stems from an Illyrian tribe called the Dalmatae. According to Prof Bertrand, the Illyrians were a group of Indo-European-speaking people who inhabited this region in ancient times – C8 BC - C5 AD. Later the now-extinct Dalmatian language emerged only to be replaced later by Venetian – geopolitics abound!
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| Besautiful miniature islands in the Nay of Kotor |
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| we sailing into the bay leaving just a small wake |
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| Kotor on the distant shore |
Montenegro! Such a romantic name. It derives from the Serbian ‘Crna Gora’, meaning ‘Black Mountain’ because of the appearance of Mount Lovćen which was covered in dense evergreen forests.
This morning we spent a few heavenly hours navigating around the deep fjord-like Bay of Kotor which is jaw-droppingly beautiful. Almost everyone was on deck as we slid quietly and slowly towards the medieval city of Kotor.
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| ‘Camouflaged mooring’ for vessels of the old Yugoslav Navy |
As we left Kotor Bay we saw a tunnel entrance along the waterline - not entirely by chance I might say because I was looking for something fitting this description. I had very little idea where it might be, but here it (or one of them) was. An entrance to one of the ‘camouflaged' mooring tunnels for attack vessels of the now defunct Yugoslav Navy. At the entrance to this, and other tunnels along this coastline, metal arms topped with rock-like chunks of polystyrene were designed to swing across the entrance, transforming it into what looked like a rocky bay when viewed from the air.
All too soon we were out in the Adriatic heading for Dubrovnik.
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