IMG_5512 - Ferries provide a short-cut to Kotor.
IMG_5514 - Chains across Verige Strait disabled Venetian ships en route to attack Kotor late in the 14th century.
IMG_5515 - Just beyond the strait was a rock where in 1452, sailors found a picture of the Virgin Mary. Safe-returning sailors would add rocks in thanks.
IMG_5516 - By 1632 the rocks, and ships disabled by the chains, had enlarged the island so the Church of Our Lady of the Rocks was built.
IMG_5517 - The Bay of Kotor looks like a fjord but is actually a "ria", a submerged canyon of the vanished Bokelj River
IMG_5519 - With so many current cultures, languages, and even alphabets, everything here has many names in common use.
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IMG_5524 - Every July 22, in honour of the 1452 event, boaters celebrate Fašinada, by adding watermelon-sized rocks to the island.
IMG_5526 - Croatia has 10 UNESCO World Heritage sites (plus 15 being considered). Our tour visited many of them.
IMG_5527 - The Chain Guard Fortress which guarded the chain across the Verige Strait.
IMG_5535 - Risan, at the north-west extreme of the Bay of Kotor, as we travelled clockwise around toward Perast and Kotor.
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