Thursday, August 15, 2013
Finike Marina
36 17.69’N: 30 09.11’E

We arrived at the Finike marina mid-day and found the town itself to be very pleasant. The harbor and beach were planned with lots of park space, walking and biking paths, and alcoves with benches overlooking the water where local fishermen could spend the day. We have some boating friends who plan to spend the winter in Finike on their boat in this marina, and we can see that it would be good location. The marina has a small “club house” for boaters with a huge book exchange library, so we were able to secure some new books to read. We have long since exhausted all our Kindle downloads!

Friday, August 16, 2013
Cavus Limani
36 18.32’N: 30 29.49’E

Leaving Finike in the morning, we enjoyed a nice sail until we rounded the cape headlands where the wind died entirely and we motored up to our anchorage area in glassy smooth waters. We passed the rugged islands at the cape where a Bronze Age shipwreck from 1200 BC was discovered. The artifacts were excavated and are now on display in the Bodrum Castle museum which we had seen several weeks ago.

The anchorage we selected for this evening looked like a quiet location with a restaurant ashore from the Pilot Book description. When we turned the corner to enter the bay, it was large with a beach lined with hundred of umbrellas, sport boats pulling screaming passengers in banana boats, jet skiis and swimmers everywhere. Shortly after we anchored, a young couple floated by on an air mattress and were very curious about our boat, so we invited them aboard for a quick tour. Once again we found the Turkish people to be very friendly.

About 7 pm the anchorage which was very calm suddenly became very windy with an evening wind sweeping down thru the mountain canyons behind the beach. We were glad that our anchor had been well set and we watched all the swimmers battle their way back to the beach against the wind. Thankfully the strong wind died down by 9 pm and we enjoyed a calm night at anchor.