We're one day off the boat, here in a major port town of Marmaris, and I'm trying for the life of me to get this Turkish keyboard to work, so bear with my typographic and character mistakes.
The sailing trip was incredible. We sailed between 12 different ports in 14 days, through the Greek islands the first week and the Turkish mainland the second week. Aboard the 55-foot Anna Maria we sailed in winds up to 30 knots and reached a top speed of around 9 knots.
We swam every day in the salty, teal Aegean and then Mediterranean waters, and found 3 octopi (plural octopus) in our snorkelling adventures. The first one we found I was tempted to try to spear for dinner.
This morning as we woke for fairwells we felt our first rain of the trip, a fantastic thunder and lightning downpour of the intensıty that can only be generated ın very hot climates that poured rain on the Anna Maria, whıch led to leaks that dripped through the skylight above the galley where we'd cooked and mixed drinks and laughed wıth our crew Matthew and Jill and our fellow travellers.
We continue now the last week of our journey from Marmaris, where I now sit typing and wishing for a No Smoking sign. We'll travel to Istanbul over the next two days for our final stop before the long flight home to Vancouver, where my brother has told us he'll meet us at the airport and have a Thankgıvıng turkey in the oven waiting.
Posted by James Sherrett at October 2, 2005 06:59 AMIt sounds like you are really enjoying your trip. I am looking forward to seeing some of those 1000 pictures that you have taken. Scott promises to meet you when you arrive home and will have your Thanksgiving turkey arranged/prepared. The card from Santorini was spectacular and thank you again for the call and birthday wishes. Have fun! Love, Mom
Posted by: Jan McManes at October 3, 2005 11:01 AM