{"id":1058,"date":"2013-08-14T07:59:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T06:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2013-08-14T08:03:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T07:03:14","slug":"ston-to-mljet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1058","title":{"rendered":"Ston to Mljet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){   (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),   m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)   })(window,document,'script','\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js','ga');   ga('create', 'UA-42922575-1', 'merrington.net');   ga('send', 'pageview');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script>When the Commodore and Sandy Lawson give you advice you take it. \u00a0They told us we should see Ston and Polace, so we did that yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>From Kobas, we turned left and anchored Mercier at the entrance to a narrow channel at Broce. We had spoken to crew of a motor yacht the night before and they advised leave the boat at Broce and go up the channel about a mile in the zodiak and we would be in Ston. The channel is 3 metres deep but silts up and that was too fine a match for Mercier&#8217;s 2.5 draft.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1067\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1067\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSCN0375-640x241.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1067\" alt=\"Broce\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSCN0375-640x241.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSCN0375-640x241.jpg 640w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSCN0375-640x241-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/DSCN0375-640x241-500x188.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Broce<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We followed the narrow channel past a few holiday houses, rounded a corner and saw the great wall of Ston lining the hilltop over the village reaching out to the nearby village of Mali Ston. When I saw the stairs going up to the wall, a sigh of relief escaped me. \u00a0With Mercier at anchor back at Broce, James wouldn&#8217;t suggest we climb the steep stairs or walk the 5.5 kilometre walk around the perimeter.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1066\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090379-640x278.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1066\" alt=\"The Great Wall of Ston\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090379-640x278.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090379-640x278.jpg 640w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090379-640x278-300x130.jpg 300w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090379-640x278-500x217.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Great Wall of Ston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wiki says that this wall was built as a second line of defense for Dubrovnik and also as a defense for the precious salt pans which was a large commercial enterprise then and is still making salt today. \u00a0The wall was completed in the 15th Century and the fortress town not only had protection, but was fully plumbed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1064\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1064\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090371-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1064\" alt=\"Anchorage at Ston\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090371-640x480.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090371-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090371-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090371-640x480-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1064\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anchorage at Ston<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Miljet is a very long island and we had headwinds on the way there, but the day was warm and sunny. \u00a0We made it to Polace in a few hours, it was like being in a very large Refuge Bay with small anchorages up to the main bay.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1065\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090417-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1065\" alt=\"Polace\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090417-640x480.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090417-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090417-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090417-640x480-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Polace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here are a few photos, more about Polace tomorrow. If you want a challenge, there is a marathon in Ston.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1063\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1063\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090380-480x640.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1063\" alt=\"Ston Wall Marathon\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090380-480x640.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090380-480x640.jpg 480w, https:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/P1090380-480x640-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1063\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ston Wall Marathon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Commodore and Sandy Lawson give you advice you take it. \u00a0They told us we should see Ston and Polace, so we did that yesterday. From Kobas, we turned left and anchored Mercier at the entrance to a narrow channel at Broce. We had spoken to crew of a motor yacht the night before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=1058\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ston to Mljet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-h4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}