Welcome To The Neighborhood
Meeting up with friends, our Bahce Koyu Neighborhood.
May 2023
Haircut Hazards
Mark needed a haircut and found a barbershop here in Türkiye—and let me tell you—if you’re a man and have never had a Turkish haircut, you haven’t lived a full life. This needs to be on your bucket list of experiences. It STARTS with a great haircut and that’s just the beginning. Once your …
Mark’s Water Taxi Service
Our retired captain has found himself a little side-hustle—it doesn’t pay anything, but it highly amuses the rest of us. Like he does most mornings, Mark hopped onto his paddle board and headed to shore for his daily run. But today, he suddenly found himself running a free shuttle service. The problem starts …
How to Artichoke
The little town of Ildir, seems to be hemmed in by large swaths of artichoke fields. In town, we stumbled upon a little artichoke stand where a man was effortlessly spinning whole artichokes into hearts at an impressive rate. Mark was raised just thirty minutes from the Artichoke Captal of the World, so his …
Soaking up Ildir
We spent the afternoon checking out Ildir until the wind kicked up and we decided it was probably a good idea to head back to our boats. By the time we reached our dingy the swells had kicked up and made it one wet and wild ride back to the boats. We were …
Ruined Ruins
Mark tries to paddle board to shore every morning for a jog—he’s been consistently running for about 15 years, and only the wildest of wind or waves will stop him from paddling to shore and going for a run. I love his jogging because he often previews everything surrounding our anchorage and then takes me …
Bus Bingo
We anchored in a bay in Ildir, full of local fishing boats, and decided it was time to head to shore and find a grocery store and a cell phone company where we could get some SIM cards for Türkiye. Our map app told us that we’d have to catch a local bus and …
To Swim or Not To Swim
Our first anchorage in Türkiye was off Kara Ada, where Kiri Maia 2 and Bedouin set anchor alongside “The Lady J”—a power yacht who was already there anchored in the shallow bay. There wasn’t much going on, besides the plethora of domestic wildlife braying and bleeting from the shore and a few goat bells …
Up the Mast
We had a little snafu getting our quarantine flag down after checking in to Türkiye. The line for hoisting the flag broke up at the top and our quarantine flag was wedged into the ring high up the mast. So we decided we could either: A)stay in quarantine for the rest of our sailing …