Like some modern Robinson Crusoe, I clambered out of the water and over the jagged rocks on to a pebble beach, pushing aside leafy branches as I peered back out to sea.
Thankfully, the sight that greeted me was not a shipwreck but the small vessel Esperanza, moored 100 yards off shore.
My desert island was actually a small cove on an islet along the Dalmatian coast, which I’d reached during a daily swim stop on my Sail Croatia cruise, and I was soon back on board for a three-course lunch and the departure for our next port.
