Boating · Cavtat, Croatia · recorded with NomadTracks

Cavtat by boat: 20.9 km along the Konavle coast at sunset

The coast changes with the light on this 20.9-kilometer boat trip from Cavtat: pale limestone under trees, orange-lit cliffs, the sun low over the Adriatic and the moon above the town on the way back. The GPS line leaves Cavtat, follows the Konavle coast southeast and returns to the same waterfront area.

The recording lasts 2 hours 19 minutes. Six geotagged photos connect the bends in the route with the shoreline and changing sky. An outboard motor and wake in the gallery identify this as a motorboat outing.

Distance20.9 km
Elevation gain0 m
ActivityBoating
Duration2 h 19 min

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Route map of Cavtat by boat: 20.9 km along the Konavle coast at sunset drawn from the recorded GPS points on an OpenStreetMap basemap
The actual recorded GPS track — start marked green, finish orange. Numbered pins mark where the photos below were taken.

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Leaving Cavtat by water

The recording begins by Cavtat’s waterfront and curves around the nearby peninsula before turning southeast. The opening gallery image looks across the water towards a wooded limestone shore. Soon afterwards, the camera points aft: the outboard motor, white wake and a paddleboard trailing behind show how this stretch was travelled.

Along the Konavle coast

Beyond the town, buildings give way to rocky shoreline and scrub-covered slopes. The local tourism board describes Konavle’s steep coastal cliffs as a defining feature of the region. This recording follows the coast southeast of Cavtat, turns offshore and retraces the general direction of the outward leg. The gallery catches the rock in warm evening light; it does not show a landing on a beach.

Sunset on the return

The return provides the most striking change of scene. One photo looks towards the sun low over the sea, its reflection stretching across the water. A later image turns back towards land, where the moon hangs above a dark coastal slope. The photo markers locate both viewpoints on the recorded line, making it possible to connect these two views of the evening sky.

Back towards the waterfront

The final selected photograph brings Cavtat back into view: pale waterfront buildings, a wooded peninsula and mountains behind, with the moon still above the scene. The GPS recording finishes near its starting area after 4,348 points. The outward and return lines are close, but they preserve the boat’s actual course and turns.

Keep the route with the photos

Download the GPX and open it in NomadTracks to explore the trip alongside the gallery. This is a record of one outing, not a nautical chart or a surveyed navigation route. Its useful detail is the combination of the course, elapsed time and geotagged photographs from the water.

About the place: Cavtat, Croatia

Cavtat lies on Croatia’s southern Adriatic coast in Konavle, southeast of Dubrovnik. This boat recording leaves the town’s waterfront area, follows the rocky coastline southeast and returns, with photographs taken offshore throughout the trip.

Wooded limestone shoreline seen from the water off Cavtat
1 · Wooded limestone shoreline seen from the water off Cavtat
An outboard motor and foaming wake, with a paddleboard trailing behind the boat
2 · An outboard motor and foaming wake, with a paddleboard trailing behind the boat
Warm evening light on the rocky Konavle coastline southeast of Cavtat
3 · Warm evening light on the rocky Konavle coastline southeast of Cavtat
The sun low over the Adriatic, casting a bright reflection across the water
4 · The sun low over the Adriatic, casting a bright reflection across the water
The moon above the scrub-covered coastal hillside
5 · The moon above the scrub-covered coastal hillside
Cavtat’s waterfront and wooded peninsula beneath the moon, seen on the return by boat
6 · Cavtat’s waterfront and wooded peninsula beneath the moon, seen on the return by boat

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