Not
much happened yesterday, so I didn’t post. Really we just did domestic stuff including instructing the
agent to check us out of Turkey.
We would have tried to do it ourselves, but everyone said it is nearly
impossible, so we spend the £20, and it is done.
We
also had a pleasant afternoon on the beach at a café where for the cost of a
couple of drinks we got nice chairs under umbrellas. For a change the water was quite cool and refreshing. We can’t understand why.
This
morning we hoped to leave by 9am, but didn’t make it until 10. We did some last minute shopping and
filled the boat up with water and off we went to Knidos. Although we have legally checked out of
Turkey, everyone said there is no problem about coming here. We wanted to do that because it is the
site of a very ancient city going back 3 thousand years.
We
left our berth and had no trouble taking up the anchor even though it was very
close to that of our neighbour.
There is not a breath of wind and it therefore feels very hot. There is no chance of sailing. In any event all two knots of wind is
on the nose, as usual. We did see
one boat going the other way with a kite up, but it was having trouble filling
the sail in this lack of wind.
Knidos
is a pretty harbour. We were not
sure what to do. You can anchor,
or there is a pontoon with alongside berths. So we went on the pontoon. I think I have nearly forgotten how to berth alongside after
all this time. But there was
someone on the pontoon to take our lines, so all went well.
I
had bought a bit of food to have on board, but not much and nothing very
exciting for lunch. So out of laziness,
we have lunch and dinner at the restaurant on the shore. As we are paying for the berth there is
no need to do that, but it is hot and we have little on board.
In
the late afternoon we go to the archaeological site and have an hour wandering
around the ruins which are very interesting. One point is that the town has a harbour on each side of a
peninsular. We are in the larger
one. The smaller one was used by
triremes in ancient times, but has now silted up and only has a couple of small
open boats in it. But in ancient
times they used both and dug a waterway between them so they could always come
and go with the wind! Very clever.
We
have had a couple of swims off the boat.
Now after dinner the wind has picked up a bit and it is fairly
comfortable, so I should be able to sleep and sit here in the saloon.
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