The time has come. It is bittersweet. We look forward to the next part of our adventure, but we have loved our time in Cyprus. It is a beautiful country. The people are kind and demonstrate generosity of spirit. In that way, they remind me of the people we met in Israel. It is one of the greatest pleasures of travel. It restores my faith in humanity when so many horrible things are happening in this world.

We have some repairs to make to the boat. Two of our windows have “popped.” I am using this term, I don’t think it is technically what it is called. What I mean is that they are no longer sealed to the boat entirely. The second one just popped yesterday. Apparently, this boat is known for windows cracking. I guess I’d rather have it pop than crack. Anywho, Michael and I are going to attempt to seal them today. Fingers crossed.

I guess that is the only actual repair we have to make, so I misspoke. The other stuff we need to do is typical maintenance and more cleaning. Seahike gets rub marks when she is in a berth. I am not really sure where they come from since we use fenders, but they magically appear. We also need to flush out the old coolant and add new. The only coolant we could find (was it in Egypt?) wasn’t exactly the right stuff so we want to swap it out with the right stuff.

We’ve changed our itinerary three times now. 🙂 The first time we changed it was because we learned that the Corinth Canal is going to be closed when we want to use it. The second time was yesterday, when a gentleman who has been sailing for 20 years recommended that we stop at Kas, Turkey before beginning our tour of the Greek Islands. So now we are going to do that.

As to when we leave Cyprus, we think it will either be late Sunday (like 11:00 p.m.) or early Monday (like 3:00 or 4:00 a.m.). We need to talk to the Control Room to see if we can leave under the cover of darkness. We also need to ask Customs and Immigration what hours they operate and whether we can check out with them one day and leave the next should the need occur. (I am writing this today because I think it is the only time I will have to dedicate to the blog.)

We still have a twisted main halyard. We kept waiting for a windless day and either we had one and didn’t take advantage (most likely!) or it was windy. We’ve never tried to untwist a halyard so we don’t even know if it can be done but it is a HUGE pain in the ass to raise the mainsail. First, I go to the mast to try to untwist the line by hand. Then we try to raise the sail. Then we see that it won’t go to the top of the mast because the lines are twisted. Then we drop the sail. Repeat. Repeat. Until success. If it is quite windy we can raise her with one reef in her and call it a day, but that isn’t always the case.

We finally went to Cape Greco. It is on the southeast corner of the island. It is beautiful. Here are some pictures both from the land and from Seahike.

That’s a wrap.

Goodbye Sueno Azul. You serve some of the best food I’ve ever eaten. I was never disappointed.

Goodbye little grocery store with the amazing selection of wine, beer, and liquor. And who delivered the biggest bunch of celery I have ever seen.

Goodbye dancing water that always made my heart happy when I walked by you.

Goodbye chandlery, where we’ve spent a good portion of our retirement fund. 😉

Goodbye coffee berry. I think I am going to miss you most of all.

Goodbye Cyprus.