started the week last saturday. met up with meg, and was introduced to her friends maddy, krystal, daniel, steph and nikki. instantly felt accepted and like i'd known them all for years. they were all snap happy, so i took very few photos for the week. boarded the boat and found out we were super lucky with the ratio of girls to boys 12:14, generally girls significantly outnumber boys which would suck!
so on board with me were...
the melbourne crew - meg, steph, maddy, krystal, daniel, nikki, av, marcus and dillon
five adelaide boys - dan, blake, echo, jarsy and scotty
token kiwis - rach and chris
the solo adventurer - nina
crazy perth chicks - jayde, ellie and paris
two brothers + a mate - nathan, chris and kristian
the exes - emily and mitch
and our crew was...
penny - our awesome rep, who somehow managed to party seriously hard every night despite having already spent 9 weeks doing so! the day before we boarded, she'd spent the day climbing up and down a mountain searching for a crazy girl from her tour, christened cookoo, who believed she'd married the mountain
kreso - our bartender and waiter, a young croatian guy with seriously gorgeous eyes
mama susie - our wonderful cook, who despite only giving us carbs carbs and more carbs was loved by everyone on our boat and was often cheered when she took to the water
ivan - one of our sailors, he was rather quiet
mate - our second sailor and all around creeper. we christened him tighty whities after he appeared in the hallway one night to physically shove us into our rooms. krystal and i also had the immense pleasure of hearing him take care of himself one morning - utterly revolting weirdo!!
ante - our captain, he didn't speak english and was decidedly grumpy most of the time. though he got pretty excited for the captain's dinner and pirate party, getting me to draw scars and a goatee on him
day one on the boat began by settling into our cabins and setting sail for omis. mama susie put on a two course spread for lunch and everyone began drinking for the week. after a swim stop in a bay, we arrived in omis for our workout for the week - a seriously gruelling 45 minute climb up a mountain to an awesome fortress. we all bitched our way up, but it was a great way to bond as a group and the views were utterly spectacular!
we had bought rings and lilos on board with us, so had a great time paddling and floating when we stopped for a swim in the clear blue water every morning and afternoon - the water was annoyingly was seriously salty but a great way to perk us up after nights of drinking!
the first day also happened to be ellie's 20th birthday, so everyone was in for a big night. we had a croatian barbecue on the boat before heading out. had a great night at a beach club to kick off a ridiculously loose week! whilst some people got absolutely trashed, this night was possibly the tamest of the week!
day two saw me at breakfast at 8am. we spent the day lounging around on the decks in the sun, swimming and talking shit. the size of the cabins and lack of wifi were brilliant in ensuring that we all socialised all day long. during the day we stopped in pucisca for lunch and an explore. side note - pucisca is where the marble for the white house came from! anyhow, penny told us we had to be kids and go on a wipeout course while we were there. new respect for the people who do the real wipeout - it was seriously exhausting and difficult! five minutes in and meg lost her gopro camera in the water - ended up paying a croatian guy 100€ to freedive 15m to retrieve it - so lucky!! had a really great race around the course, absolutely annihilating each other in the process and resulting in a victory by maddy and a seriously damaged nipple on kiwi chris. ouch!!
we docked that afternoon in makarska. everyone predrank on the boat before heading to smile bar, getting free shots and dancing on couches - so much fun. then we were off to rave in a cave!!! unfortunately was only there for a little while as had to leave with dillon and maddy, who i somehow third wheeled the whole week, awkward! as drunk as i was, i managed to put four people into the recovery position before going and passing out myself somehow minus my top (don't worry dad, i wasn't up to any mischief)
once again began the day with 8am breakfast and a morning swim. the eagerness of everyone to get in the water each day was pretty amusing. this night in stari grad was meant to be a quiet one, yet no one on our boat seemed to believe in quiet nights. an relaxing evening of wine tasting at a vineyard turned into rock offs to scull wine and total outrageousness. we all drank and danced on the boat, i third wheeled for a drunken food run, and a brawl broke out between our boys and 15 guys on a footy trip on the boat rafted next to us! thankfully policeman scotty saved the day, and we were separated from that boat for the rest of the week. oops!
the following morning i was 40 minutes early for breakfast. the plan for the day was rather uncertain but we ended up catching a bus from stari grad and the boat met us later. spent a relaxing afternoon shopping and lazing on a seriously beautiful beach in hvar. the beaches here are all rocks, so gave a couple of the girls hot rocks massages, just wished i could have had one myself! the evening in hvar was once again set to be a big one. we got ready on the boat, had a few drinks and set out to a laneway bar for free shots and dancing. was so excited to run into people from back home there, but it was so packed i promptly lost them again! most of our boat ended up going to carpe diem, the world famous island nightclub, but $40 entry seemed a bit steep! so instead went back to the boat and had a few d&ms.
next on our itinerary was a stop in korcula. supposedly the birthplace of marco polo, there were things named after him everywhere!! went for cocktails at the top of a historic watchtower and went for pizza as a group. on the way back the boys all bought bb guns - do they ever grow up? spent the evening predrinking on the other busabout boat before heading to a bar that sold buckets. had great fun and a bit of drama there before heading to boogie jungle nightclub further inland. devastated it wasn't jungle-like, instead was a superclub but had the sickest night regardless. music was great and everyone just went wild!
the following morning we were far too dead to get off the boat for a trip to mljet national park, so instead just lazed around before docking at some little island i have no idea the name of. the night was the captain's dinner and pirate party, had an absolute ball giving all the guys black eyes and dressing up. ended up on the other busabout boat again instead, played never have i ever for a solid 3 hours! supposedly our boat was hectic and lots of glasses got smashed, the only bit i witnessed was one of the boys peeing his pants!
sadly our last night on the boat had arrived. we docked in dubrovnik port and caught buses to the old town for the afternoon. totally recognised places from game of thrones in there - it was gorgeous! walked the city walls with emily and went for a swim off the rocks before heading back to the boat to get ready for our last night out!
our night in dubrovnik was awesome. headed to a bucket bar with the other busabout boat before heading to revelin nightclub inside the walls of the city. it was absolutely huge and yet another crazy night. by the time we left buses had resumed for the following day and we had the old town to ourselves!
after making menaces of ourselves back on the boat in the early morning we passed out for a couple of hours before hastily disembarking the boat. our poor crew would have had a seriously difficult time cleaning our mess in the two hours before the next group boarded! spent a lazy day in dubrovnik before heading up the cable car with jackson. so happy to see him and the views were spectacular!
spent the night hanging out with boys from the other boat. today off to slovenia with meg and steph, so excited!!!
