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Gospa od Škrpjela, Montenegro

I've just posted photos from my trip to Croatia last November, and I've decided to post some outtakes over the next few days as I have time. This is the first, from a day trip I took from Dubrovnik to Montenegro. We arrived at this open area between the mountains to look out over the bay to the Gospa od Škrpjela, an artificial island supporting the Church of Our Lady of the Rocks.

According to legend, the island was created by sailors who vowed to erect a church after an icon of the Madonna and Child was found on a rock in the sea. As the story goes, the icon was brought to shore, but each morning it would disappear, to be found once again in the sea.

We arrived by minivan and paused to take photos from the shore. Unfortunately, a trip to the island itself wasn't in the cards. As we admired the church from the edge of the water, a dog appeared. The dog was particularly enamored with a female member of our group, and she had some difficulty extracting herself from the situation. I shot this photo as we were about to continue on to Kotor.