Our last stops after Samac were Domaljevac, Tolisa and now Orasje. When in Domaljevac as well as in Orasje asking for some small parts that we needed for our Johnson motor (new comment from a mecanizer here is: 40 years old, 40 PS - and as they use to say - the money is making the music...). So asking for some parts we received SO many help, good contacts, sympathy of the people who use this river since lifetime.
Domaljevac: We got to know Mato, his family and his cousin Jose. It was a pleasure to feel their hospitality, and to speak with them. So we stayed a day longer than we used to plan in our timetable and Selma pleasured a shower and a dreamy night in a bed with her new friend Teresa (daughter of Mato).
Toliso: We notice we should better recognize the comments of local people. They did warn us not to stay the night on a place further on. We did not notice, so we had to sleep with the air filled by rubbish smell from the close burning place.... Thanks to captain warning us!
Orasje: Here first time we see lots of people using the river for sports swimming through the river site. We listen to stories of the elder people that know still the river when it was so clean that you could make coffee of the water, and again people tell us of the construction of their boats, of splavs that has been constructed or will be...