It really felt like going home, arriving back in Karaca Sogut, where we spent 3 months winter 2008/2009. This happy pontoon is known locally as "China Town"!
Kiwi Peter was a star coming with his fuel pump to help me get the water out of the fuel - I won't do THAT again!!!
Peter, Barbara and Wifi the cat (who keeps coming and going) - year 4 of their 7 year round world trip.
Haluk owns the Global marina we wintered in. Here he waves us off, aboard his 60' expedition boat which may (or may not) be bound for Antarctica next year.
The fat bloke's hand on the right is mine... surrounded as we are by pine forest and beehives, it was inevitable one of us would get stung one day. It swelled up further!
The beautiful Kuyuk buku is just west 20miles of KS. It was here we got the fishing net tangled up in our prop and dragged our anchor in the entrance in the near gale - next day calm, this catamaran actually ran aground in exactly the same place another boat had the day before. An interesting location!
Here's the small flotilla that came out to help tow us in at dusk. So typically Turkish in their kindness.
Further west, still in the gulf, Kormen was quite a desolate, almost abandoned place with its lee shore covered in the inevitable (it seems) plastic debris.
Rounding the west tip of the Datcha peninsular, you are no doubt you are in Turkey from the flag on the lighthouse. Our friend Altan from Palamut used to run here to visit his granddad, the lighthouse keeper.
Work on board in Palamut for 2 days; here on some SeaSeastem.biz preparation for my next but one Superyacht job - PLC programming!
We rashly (maybe) turned right out of Palamut, rather than left and ended up seeing our friend Cenk, storm bound in Turgutreis for 2 nights!
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