Hive Fest Day 6 - the rescheduled boat trip

I'm skipping a few days ahead of my Hivefest posts as we had such a great time today. On Day 4 we were supposed to go on a boat trip but the weather forecasted thunderstorms so it was rescheduled to Sunday on Day 6, which is today. Unfortunately some people couldn't make it as they had already scheduled to leave after the farewell drinks on Day 5. We still had a good turnout as quite a lot of people was staying on for a few more days.

I was a bit worried the sea might be choppy as the weather forecast said it might rain, but luckily it turned out fine. We could have done with a bit more sun, other than that all was good most of the time.

The boat had three levels, the top deck. It was so relaxing sitting on the deck chairs with the sea breeze blowing around me.

This is the main level

And this is the lower deck. It had some glass floor so we could see into the sea. There was supposed to be an undersea museum on the itinerary but it think maybe that was skipped due to the weather. Lot's of people had huddled down here at one point as it was getting quite windy upstairs.

We were cruising for about two hours and arrived at our destination. As we got off board, the crew was busy preparing our lunch. It smelt so nice, making me hungry already.

I had no idea where we going, I just followed the people in front of me.

It was just a couple minutes walk and suddenly I saw this beautiful bay in front of me. It was a public beach called Uvala Jelinak Veli, but it might as well been the HiveFest private beach as we had it all to ourselves. Some came well prepared and had already changed for a swim. The rest just lie around chilling out. It was so relaxing.

When lunch was ready the crew sounded the horn and we made the short walk back to the boat. We were served a choice of mackerel or chicken.

After lunch, we had about 45 minutes till we were due to leave. Some of us went for a stroll. It was so beautiful and I would have loved to walk further along the coast. Sadly we had to turn back, no one wanted to be left behind!!

The return journey also took about two hours and I had some interesting conversation with more people. Like Hive account@buttcoins from Guatemala and how their hotel survived under COVID, and Hive account@forkyishere from New Zealand, about he and his family moving from Portugal to New Zealand and the challenges they faced. Most of us travelled from Europe to Split, but they and many others came from much further. The Hive community must be doing something right for so many people to make such an effort to attend Hivefest.

As we were getting near back to Split, I noticed something moving on the mast. It was Hive account@growandbow and he had climbed all the way up. It looks scary but then he climbs tall structures for living so this is probably nothing to him, even though we're on a moving vessel.

Then I noticed he had company. It was Percy aka Hive account@thebombkids. I was chatting to Percy earlier on, and despite being 11 only, he's such a likeable kid. Not only that, the kid is fearless. He was moving around on the mast up and down, left and right and even hanging himself upside down. My heart was pounding just watching him but I guess some people are just natural at some things. Well done kiddo!

We got back to the city at 4pm, an hour earlier than scheduled. That worked out better for some as they were flying out in the evening. This is where the majority of us bid farewell to everyone else, knowing that we'd meet again in a year's time. Goodbye HF9, Bring on HF10!!