We left Cyprus on Good Friday and arrived in Türkiye on Easter Sunday. The GRIBs correctly predicted the winds, so the trip was uneventful. Whew! What a way to spend the Easter weekend!

We are now in the Kaş marina anchorage. A berth in the marina would have cost about $170/day so we said, “no thank you.” This means that we need to revisit our plans. We’d expected to be in a marina for at least a part of our visit so that we could take a four-day road trip. That’s not going to happen now.

Let us first say something about the work we got done at the Limassol Marina. It was lightning fast! We were astonished and grateful. 🙂 The Raymarine dude replaced two navigation instrument displays and installed a triducer. The Yanmar folks emptied and cleaned our fuel tanks, cleaned our fuel/water separators (for both engines and the generator), replaced the serpentine belts on both engines, and replaced the water pump belt on the starboard engine. It wasn’t cheap (at all!) but everything needed to be done and was done quickly. We also hired a diver to check our props and propellers. (We are certified divers but we don’t have a tank on board. Must get one.) We hired the diver for a couple of reasons. First, Michael had cut yet more plastic from the props and wanted to make sure that it had all been removed. Second, we’d been hearing a weird sound from the rudders and wanted to make sure that nothing was amiss. There wasn’t.

Here are a few pictures of the work we had done at Limassol. We’ll start with the fuel tanks. First, they attach a hose to the bottom of the fuel tank. You can see a nozzle toward the bottom of the tank in the middle:

Next, they put the hose through the portlight and attach it to a pump.

This little pump (the black thing in the middle with two hoses attached to it) moves the fuel from the tank to a big barrel in the back of their truck.

They emptied the starboard tank, then we used the fuel transfer pump to move the fuel from the port tank to the starboard tank. When they were done, there was no more fuel left on Seahike.

The next step was to remove both of the fuel tanks from the boat. It took them some time to detach them. They are light so it was easy for them to remove them from the boat.

I worked really hard while they worked:

See that boat behind us? Look at how small Seahike looks next to it: 🙂 🙂

I also took the opportunity to visit “our” lighthouse while they worked on our boat.

Is it just me, or can you use your imagination (quite a bit) to see these as TIE fighters? 🙂

Kind of random, but I love this fender cover!!! I want one.

Okay, so we checked out of Cyprus – which is a breeze, by the way – and headed to Kaş (pronounced “cash”). The moon was nice and bright, which was a gift on our night watches.

We saw the lights of Cyprus for many hours, then saw nothing but sea, then saw the lights of the mainland for many hours. It was a very short trip!

I took this picture as we were approaching Kaş, because it is the first Greek island we will visit. It is only about 3 nm from the Turkish mainland. We will check into Greece there.

As I mentioned, we arrived on Easter Sunday. Here are a few pictures from the end of our journey. I particularly like this one of the sun rising on Easter Sunday:

Is it just me, or does it look like the road in the picture above goes right into the sea??

We checked in, decided to anchor when we learned of the ridiculous price to stay in the marina, then Michael took a nap. We were both kind of tired, so we didn’t do anything in particular the first day.

This is a pretty anchorage. We took these pictures the first day. We will share more – and better – pictures in our next entry.