Beauty and the Bay
A few more pics from our visit to Bozukkale, because a bay this lovely shouldn’t be upstaged by a broken castle.
A Mad Donkey and A Broken Castle
Along a very lonely stretch of Türkiye’s Carian Coast, we recently visited the crumbling enclosure of Bozukkale’s ancient citadel. As we sailed in and set our anchors in its “quiet tranquil bay,” a large herd of goats scampered up the cliffs, their bells clanging, and a certain perturbed wild donkey belched out the loudest …
The Great Sunglass Scandal
A pernicious case of missing sunglasses has been partially solved over here on Bedouin. You’d think you couldn’t lose anything when your house is a tiny boat. But things seem to go missing at a mystifying rate around here, despite the clear lack of square footage for things to disappear to. When we …
Adios Knidos
Another group field trip to shore to watch the sunset over Knido’s remarkable bay. We’re new in town but these crumbling ruins have seen this view a million nights over. Can you imagine? The perfect evening to bid farewell to such a lovely place. Enjoying some girl time with my fellow yacht girls, the …
Passing Notes & Shakespeare Plays
Along the Datça peninsula, we nestled into the tiniest bay off the shores of what remains of the crumbling Hellenic city of Knidos. To say we nestled in there, is actually to say that, with much consternation, we wrestled for a spot to anchor where we wouldn’t swing into other boats crowded inside the bay. …
Cool Beans
Delving into the mysterious world of beans today. It’s just one of those things you do on a boat on a super rainy day. Today, Bedouin’s galley is proud to introduce you to “Tongues of Fire.“ And no, that’s not me swearing in the kitchen–it’s an actual bean… …and the makings for …
Market Madness
The local food markets here in Türkiye have made shopping for food exciting again. After years of feeding my family, I began to dread trips to the supermarket—been there, done that, and now most days I’m over it. But these Turkish food markets have put a fresh spin on shopping days. Unlike Instanbul’s famous …
An Endless Array of Views
The great thing about having a moving house, is that there’s an endless array of views off your front porch. Today’s view of Bodrum’s Castle was not too shabby. Bodrum’s Castle of St. Peter began construction in 1406. This 15th century castle was built by The Knights Hospitallers around 1402—the knights surrendered the castle …
Never Too Old For A Field Trip
It’s pretty common as you sail around, to find yourself anchored near the same boats you were anchored next to at a different bay. You get to know the super friendly ones and look forward to meeting again sometime in a future anchorage. Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been anchoring near many of …
Super Charged
We reached a huge milestone here on Bedouin yesterday—we celebrated our 40th day on anchor under our own power. This is quite the accomplishment, since last season the average number of days that we were able to go without checking into a marina so that we could charge our batteries and fill our water tanks …