Writings and Musings on Boat Life
From the moment I had heard about Khalkidhiki I had wanted to go there. Three fingers of land hanging down from the mainland of Greece into the northern Aegean Sea, the third of them being a peninsula of monasteries and holy to all eastern orthodox Christians. At its isolated and somewhat desolate end sits Mt…
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From the day we went back into the water on the northern end of Leros on July 4th we headed north and travelled as far north as we could go this season. Next stop after the island of Thasos is the Greek Mainland. We had planned to visit Kavala, a town on the mainland but…
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It’s always been a love affair between Greece and me. It has been since my arrival in Athens on my 21st birthday after a horror show debacle in Bangladesh. We had been offloaded from a budget airline flight in Dhaka and told we may get another in weeks, if lucky. At that point we were…
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Returning to the boat was an experience I was heavily anticipating. 2.5 years is a long time to be away from your home and after only a single season before Covid hit. By the time we were setting off it was almost as if we were coming back to a new boat and a new…
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After a very quick 24-hour turnaround to the town of Kas we were back in Kekova to make sure we had covered the best of it. We needed to just do the details of life in Kas as Kekova is a little too far off the beaten track. Poo pump out (yep, another 2 weeks…
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After a huge day sail we arrived into Kekova through a narrow entrance channel between islands. Kekova Roads is about an 8 nautical mile long waterway that is protected by Kekova Adasi (island) and the complex geography of the coast. It has many bays and indentations and unlike the rest of Turkey the places to…
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I’d imagined sun drenched islands with spartan vegetation, goat bells and tiny blue domed churches. I felt them all calling to me when I was sitting at home in Australia, dreaming about the Greek Islands. Yet….and despite this yearning we made a change to our plans in order to head directly into Turkey after we…
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It’s almost impossible for me to believe I left Australia over a month ago. It’s been a wild ride before and since then. Rick and I parted ways in Hobart after I tested positive to covid despite my care before we left as I really didn’t want anything like this happening. So he headed off…
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I’m sitting here in Port Douglas feeling a very familiar feeling. Reluctance. Reluctance to tell the current story of our travels because I am well aware that so many friends and family are not in a position to even go out of their homes right now. I am a person who is very attached to…
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Last year we rented a van in cairns and spent the month of August getting away from the winter in Tasmania and travelling around the Cairns region. I could tell you everywhere we went and what we did during that time without checking the photos I took! Fast forward to this year and picking up…
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ocean-pilgrim: Back on Water 