May 11, 2011 - Pupnat

May 11, 2011 - Pupnat

I arrived at Lovric looking very sportif and announced that I was going to see if Preston wanted to go on a 3 hour hike!

Pupnatska Luka at
the top

We are going to  Pupnat today and just outside of Pupnat is a lovely bay called Pupnatska Luka… the only problem is that it is at the bottom of a very high hill.

Once we dropped every on off in Pupnat, and got Jonelle organized with the lunch, Loris drove Preston and me to the top of the road to Pupnatska Luka.  We walked to the bottom in about 40 minutes, had lunch at the bottom at the beach and then headed back up the hill at noon.  It had be overcast all morning and now the sun decided to come out to light the way back to Pupnat!  It took us about 50 minutes to get back up the hill then and then we were on the highway back to Pupnat.  We had another 45 minute walk  back to Pupnat and our goal was to  make it back before the cafe closed, so that we could have our well deserved beer :)  We did not actually know it would take 45 minutes but we made it to the cafe at 1:30 so we had lots of time for beer before they were suppose to close at 2:30pm.

Pupnat

Meanwhile back in Pupnat, everyone had found their location to paint.  Cynthia was perched at higher level looking over the town and had been there all morning, when a yellow truck stopped to talked to her.  In broken English the guy wanted to know how long she had been painting there, Cynthia said "all morning" and so he wanted to know if she recognized his truck?  No, she said, she had never seen it before.  This confirmed, for him, that he had not been down this road before.  What is funny about this is that Pupnat has a population of about 400 people and this guy was a delivery person who was lost.  With one main road and then one smaller upper road, it really is impossible to get lost in Pupnat and that is exactly what this guy was!

Pupnat argricultural area

After Preston and I arrived at the cafe and had been there for about 1/2 hour, slowly the rest of the group started to petter in and joined us for some beverages.  

Loris arrived at 3pm and we headed back.  We made a quick pit stop in Korcula so that people could get money and then we were home by 4pm.

Critique was at 6pm with dinner to follow at 7pm.  Dinner tonight was barley soup, goulash on mashed potatoes, and meringue dessert.