Mljet National Park

Today we explored Mljet National Park on the west-ish side of the island. The views when we woke up were so nice! It was supposed to be super windy today (the forecast just said wind) so I thought it would be much cooler hiking up the mt this morning…only there was no wind on the way up! Once we got to the top we realized we had been hiking between 2 ridges that blocked the wind! And it was super humid so it was so hot and yuck, but not a bad climb (and luckily not super long). The views from the top were great (and we found all the wind)! I am sure they would have been even better in full sun and clear, like we had this afternoon, but I cannot imagine trying to hike that in sun with no wind! It wasn’t even that hot today, it just felt like it because of the humidity! Then it was down to the big lake to spy, I saw another snakey along the way! and found some weird coral or something in the lake. The signs said there was a lot of coral in the lakes, but it was so strange looking if that is what it was!

Then we were trying to decide if we wanted to walk the long way around the lake to the first stop of the boat to a small island, or the short way to the second stop (and then on to the island). Well the time schedule made it seem like if we went the long way around we would either have to walk to the second stop or wait an hour for the next boat to go to the second stop (where we were parked basically), so we decided to go the short route and then get off at the first stop on the way back and walk to the second…only we got to the stop and the boat wasn’t leaving from there! It was only going between the island and a stop between the 2! So we had to hurry along to the real stop as the boat only ran once an hour… it was a bit crazy as online the schedule was every 2 hours, the lady at the ticket counter told us every hour, but that it made all the stops, and the signs had the same schedule, then at the stop it was like no, just kidding go somewhere else. I have found that information is not always consistent or given here which I find a bit strange, but oh well we figured it out.

So we finally got the boat and wandered around the tiny island (the boat only stops there for 20 min, but it really only took 10 to walk around the island so that was plenty of time!), then we went to spy on the little lake (the last photo!) and the water was an incredible color! Really all the water is so pretty! We also saw lots of butterflies and fun flowers along the way today. All in all a pretty fun day!Read more