18 JUNE TO 3 JULY

Well this has been a really surprising part of our journey. We had 2 1/2 weeks on our own before friends Peta and Steve join us in Gocek so we left paradise bay and headed south around the SW tip of Turkey then along the south (Lycian) coast. We wanted to re-visit places we'd been to in this area when we first started sailing and chartered yachts from Marmaris and Gocek and also wanted to expore a few places further east we'd not previously been able to get to. The journey south was wonderful with good sailing and lovely bays/villages (especially Octopus restaurant in Sogut where they kindly went to great lengths to get the Lions v Australia rugby match on tv! and where we met up again with Michael and Judy from REIGATE!! We'd seen them earlier but hadn't managed to have a good chat. when we met up again in Sogut we spent some time over a glass or two of red to swap sailing tales (as yachties do) but immediately on the usual introductory questions discovered they were from Reigate and so of course discussion developed .....and a few more reds...). Never cease to be amazed by how small a world it really is.