Wednesday, 27th June 2018 Wild Boar and Sea Urchins We have been heading west along the Turkish coast, back to familiar territory. This is still the Lycian coast: wild & rugged with mountains and ravines, mixed with stretches of long sandy beaches that serve as turtle hatcheries. It was home to an Anatolian race about 2 millennium BC who were skilled craftsmen, architects, traders and sailors. They are noted for their rock tombs, elaborate and convivial ...

Sunday, 10 June 2018 Myths, Legends & Swimming with Turtles A 23 hour passage from Latchi in Cyprus to Finike in Turkey - a change of plan and an additional 50nm. We had good, fast sailing for the first 8 hours, whilst through the night, we were treated to a spectacular electrical storm with triple forks of lightning striking the sea at the same time. Thankfully, not too close. We arrived at the marina where Osman relieved us of €100 for our Turkish Tran...

Lots of Lazing About, Saturday 1st July The last fortnight has been hotting up. I had a lovely birthday (thanks to all for cards stashed away, presents, emails and messages ). In the previous blog I mentioned that we were in Ortisim Bükü or Laundry Bay, on account of its fresh water spring. After opening presents, we took the boat and anchored as close to the "spring" beach as possible. There were two Turkish boats there (as well as the little Russian family fr...

It's a Hard Choice Wednesday 21st June First difficult choice: which beautiful bit of coastline to explore next? We left the Gulf of Fethiye to go around the corner to the Gemiler area for a few days. Here there are craggy reefs and coves - we stopped the first night in a reef strewn, but picturesque setting around the corner from a busy "restaurant bay", Karacaören, that had a flotilla in. It was a bit rolly, but stunning. We carried on to visit Ölü Deniz,...

The Wrong Red 12th June 2017 The sun's been out and it is hotting up - low 30's now at midday. We duly went over to Datça, mainly because it had the most fabulous market the last time we were here - fruit, veg & spices daily, then the full Monty on Saturdays with all the rugs and leather, bras & pants and pots & pans. We arrived on a Wednesday, hoping to go to the food market on Thursday. Sadly, either our memories failed us completely (not...