The Gulet Boat Adventures and More: Part Twelve

We sailed away from Fethiye to have a bit of fun for a day, a bit of swimming in a pretty cove, and maybe some hiking (which this time I passed on. I had done this hike before). The morning began with some clouds

There were other boats of a similar ilk in this cove as well…

The bay is really quite popular and is known as Cleopatra’ Bay or Ruin Bay. There are some ruins there, but nothing much worth exploring. But because it is a popular bay, the vendor boats started showing up… including my personal favorite—- the ice cream boat, with wonderful Magnum Bars (which I am addicted to). Here’s our guy tempting us already in mid-morning!

There was also another food boat, in this case the lady was making crepes, anything from spinach and cheese crepes to dessert crepes with fruit (e.g. bananas). They were excellent as well.

To work off my Magnum bar and crepe we went swimming, and in particular Yuliya and I and Sarah had our little dingy take us out to the island in the mouth of the bay, and a swam back to the boat from it. It was longer than it looks in this picture, and it took me a while but I made it. I’m not the same swimmer I once was when I was a Scout and a lifeguard, but the limbs still work.

We played ball toss in the water between the boats, and then there was Mark who decided to throw the ball from one boat to another…. unfortunately it sailed over the deck into the other side of the cove where there was a current, so he paddled around and retrieved the Fenerbache soccer ball(it’s Levent’s favorite Turkish football team).

This presents a chaired professor of Biblical Studies at Huntington in a whole new light.

Some of us, in this case Lorraine, took cooking lessons from our estimable chef on our boat…

And here is our wonderful host and friend, Levent, who makes all this possible.

You see the Gulet Boat adventure is not just about museums and the archaeological ruins. I mean this is not a tour for just archaeologists, you know what they say about archaeologists, their life is constantly in ruins!