
The western shore between Stoliv and Prčanj is the bay's unhurried side, a thin coastal road threaded between the water and the wooded flank of Vrmac. Houses here sit in gardens of olive, fig and oleander, and the shoreline breaks now and then into small stretches of sand and shingle — a rarity in a bay that is otherwise mostly stone slipways and concrete ponte. The water is calm almost every morning, protected by the ridge, and swimming carries on well into October. Across the channel you look straight at Perast and, in the middle distance, the islets of Our Lady of the Rocks and St George, which are best seen from this side in the late afternoon when the light comes over your shoulder.
Practical distances are short. Kotor's walled Old Town is about eight kilometres along the shore road, Tivat roughly six, with the airport just beyond it — one reason this stretch suits travellers who want the bay without a long transfer. Behind the houses, old mule paths climb through chestnut woods towards abandoned Gornji Stoliv and its church of St Elias, an hour's steady walk for a view down the whole inner fjord. For food, the villages along the road keep a handful of family konobas where the fish is whatever came in that day and the wine is usually local Vranac.
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