We were supposed to leave for Mljet bright and early this morning, but the weather wasn't the best so Captain Gordon on Mlini said we would have to wait. As the Aurora yacht was much bigger they left at around 12pm. Janice went with Aurora and I was left on Mlini to supervise it's departure.

It was a bit sunny so I sat on the back of the boat and read up on Croatia, Bobo decided he would relieve me from my studying by attempting to chat me up….as he does pretty much every girl on the boat. It's quite funny, but if he wasn't so full on I might have actually gone for him. Wait no scratch that, its not that he's full on, I'm full on. It's that he's too familiar with people he's just met, which makes things a bit uncomfortable. Bobo wears thick framed glasses, which seem to obscure the way he looks, he sat down in front of me at one of the tables and I just stared at him, partially to try to get him to play the staring game with me, (which I was champion of the world at when I was a kid) and partially so I could stare at him unhindered and figure out what exactly he looks like under those glasses.

He's not a bad looking guy, quite tall, green eyes, rather thick eye brows, with a small section over his right eye missing making me think he may have once had his eyebrow pierced. No matter how hard I looked at him I couldn't get past his silly behaviour around the passengers and around me.

At about 1pm we set of for Mljet, which even though the weather had cleared up was still a rather rocky journey. Despite the big night everyone had, no one throw up, thank god. On the way out of Dubrovnik, we past a few cruise ships, including the Costa Magika, which everyone made fun of after Costa's big accident last year.

It took us about four hours to reach Mljet island, longer than usual apparently and we docked up and got off the boat. I met Janice and told her there had been no problems and went straight into the National Park.

It was about closing time so I met a lot of people coming out and I seemed to be the only person heading in, which suited me just fine as I seemed to have the entire place to myself. I trekked up some stone steps through the bush and then onto a tarmac road that had come out and an amazing blue lake. It was serene and quiet and I wished I had more time to just sit there and enjoy it. I pushed on down the long deserted road, which seemed to be swaying like a fun house because of the rocky boat journey.

I came to a small bridge over a channel in the lake, called Mali Most where people float from one lake to another. In the larger lake beyond the bridge, there was a small island with a monastery on it, in effect and island with in an island. It was too late to get the boat across so I just sat and looked at the amazing scene for a bit before heading back to the boat, stopping often to sit and admire the quiet tranquillity.

I reached the boat in time for the Captain's BBQ, which was sausages, chicken and pork cutlet. After dinner we had happy hour on the boat and I was introduced to helmet shots. This involves putting on an actual metal war helmet and then Bobo making you some weird concoction of a drink that needs to ferment. You ferment this by having a friend (or enemy) place a napkin over the top of the glass along with their hand and then bashing the bottom of the glass on the helmet which you are now wearing, repeatedly. It then congeals and you have to skull it. I managed to avoid this and just stand back and laugh at the others for once.