Following an outrageous 'in house' quiz night led by Quiz Master Tony Cochrane, brains baffled bulls*** & bribery, with team 'Logger' - Garry, Anthony & Annie taking out the honours, all fell to bed mentally thrashed!

An early departure from our mooring at anchor near Kalkan got us to Butterfly Bay, about 15 miles up the coast from Kalkan. The bay is only accessible by water, with sheer cliffs either side and behind a sandy beach. A beautiful spot for an early morning swim and breakfast, bonus was watching paragliders who jumped from a 1900 meter mountain behind the Bay gliding and circling in to land on this tiny stretch of beach. According to Captain Genghis they lose approx 10 people a year in this spot. We each forced down the impulse to do a tandem jump.

Having pulled anchor we sailed to Olu Deniz, a sandy beach on a large lagoon. Moored outside the lagoon, we swam, canoed and explored both inside and outside the lagoon. Louise and Anthony came across a large turtle, happy to put on a show as they rowed past. The coast is still all rock, however more heavily wooded than earlier in the week, pines the primary tree, and lots of green undergrowth.

Lunch on board again a gastronomic treat - stuffed eggplant, spinach, yoghurt & orange salad, pasta with peas, sweet corn, tomatoes & a 'serve yourself' garlic sauce of crushed walnuts, bread, olive oil & fennel, tomato & cucumber timbales with chilli, a warm leek & carrot salad......

More swimming to work that lot off before heading for the island of Gemiler (St Niklaus Island), sporting ruins of 5 churches, a necropolis & Byzantine monastery, cisterns & wells. Some traces of wall paintings & a few mosaic fragments remain in the churches & submerged foundations of an ancient port.

An enterprising couple float by. The woman is making the finest crepes to order, rolling a small lump of dough wafer thin with a narrow rolling pin to the size of a huge dinner plate, topping half with either nutella & banana or lemon juice & sugar, then folding over the other half & cooking on a huge gas fired hot plate on the boat. His contribution was flipping the crepes & spruiking. Of course, had to have some!

Here for an overnight with dinner on board. A beautiful breeze has come up tempering the 31/32 degrees heat today.