Trekking to Turkey

It is just a couple hours’ sail from Rhodes to Turkey. We head to Marmaris, which is a deep bay surrounded in lush green trees and jagged rock outcrops. It is so verdant that I am surprised the difference between the Turkish coast and the rocky arid Greek islands we have been sailing through. We spend our time getting the boat ready for winter and filing all of the government papers necessary to be in Turkey. The marina is one of the largest in Europe with acres of boats drydocked. They are parked so close to each other that it looks like a Walmart parking lot. There are two large cranes pulling boats constantly out of the water. It never stops. They don’t call it dry docking, they call it “having your boat on the hard”. The date they put the boat back in the water is called your splash date. The boating community is quite close here. We are there for a little over a week before flying to Istanbul.