Biševo and the Blue Cave

Each morning small boats leave Komiza harbour for the short crossing to Biševo, a tiny islet just to the southwest of Vis. There's a seasonally inhabited hamlet just up from Biševo's small harbour, and a couple of attractive coves, but the main attraction here is the Blue Cave (Modra špi1ja) on the island's east coast, a modestly sized but entrancing grotto which can only be reached by sea. It's been a tourist attraction since the 1880s, when a minor Viennese painter Eugen von Ransormet-Villet dynamited the entrance to the cave to widen it for boat access, and the Lloyd steamer company began advertising it as the "Austrian Capri". It probably deserves the hype: when the sun is at its height, water-filtered light shines in through a submerged side entrance to the cave to bathe everything in the cavern in an eerie shimmering blueness. Due to the narrowness of the entrance, the cave can't be entered when the sea is all choppy, which can happen on abut the calmest of summer days; ask the
tourist office in either Komiža or Vis Town about conditions.
There are two ways to visit the cave; the easiest is to take an excursion from either Kormiža or Vis Town (all the private room agencies offer tours, costing 80-100 Kn including the cave entrance fee), although it's also possible to take a taxi boat from Komiza harbour to the island, from where you can walk to a spot near the cave entrance. Either way, you'll be transferred to a small boat and ferried into the cave.You can take a dip in the cave if you want – although be warned that the volume of tourist traffic often means that you won't be able to spend as long there as you might wish.

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