Mussels on the menu and camera-loving swans

 

Jumping ahead a few destinations to share some tasty morsels on the menu yesterday as well as a friendly family of swans that blessed us with their company at our last anchorage.

We’ve just departed after two nights moored downstream from a breathtaking fairy-like land of cascades, waterfalls and boardwalks at Krka National Park. Plenty of photos to share from the waterfalls so will take the time to post those later this week. The nearby riverside village of Skradin was home to a dozen or so families of swans who’ve become very accustom to yachts and humans. One such family paddled across to visit us half a dozen times that afternoon and the papa swan posed for my camera a solid five minutes showing off all his best angles! Once he'd had enough, he raised his wings skyward and sailed away like a little swan sailboat.  

  

After passing by several mussel farms over the past month, Aunty Robyn had long been talking about sourcing some local product. With only the remainder of this week left of her stay – by chance the next marina berth we pulled into was alongside an old dinghy and diver pulling up massive clusters of mussels from under the dock. After exchanging some hand signals and broken English we quickly had more mussels onboard than we could handle and it became the feature ingredient on the dinner menu prepared by our fabulous crew chef Mike. Having to sort and clean them ourselves was tedious, but you couldn’t ask for any fresher.

Funnily enough Aunty Robyn even woke up this morning reporting of dreams filled with mussels (and swans)!!