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A short peaceful sail down to Kas and with a quick look in the harbour we decided to look at the anchorages!!! To our great delight we found a little piece of heaven..Kas is less touristy then Kalkan and maybe astetically not as pleasing but still beautiful especially in the bay where we stayed. It had everything….most importantly the wonderful gentle cool breeze that blows all day and keeps us very cool in the evening.. Even so cool that we do not have to reach for the modern convenience of AirCon!

We have spent the last 5 days just sleeping swimming,snorkelling paddling(lots of exercise) and eating. A couple of books were read and i managed to work out a little ironman workout consisting of the ski,swimming and some swiss ball work. Baz has got himself a pretty good routine going. He calls it the “15 minute workout” that he does in 7 minutes… Always working a way to speed things up our Baz

We have seen 18 inch Garfish,octopus, turtles (the large Caretta Caretta) Flying fish and also the human kind of animals. The sea life is a plenty here due to the wonderful clear waters.. Because of this there is some good seafood eating here. We saw a huge Sword fish being cut up last night and have found our favourite dish of the town…“Fish in paper bag” made in the Sultan Restaurant (a tip from the guy’s at Cafe Del Mar in Kalkan. We freequented the SULTANGARDENRESTAURANT on every visit into town one day for brekky, lunch and dinner. We would sit and watch the maniac Paragliders land on the pier of the yachts amongst the many masts. We also were told all about the ruins that are right in there restaurant consisting of a Lycian Tomb and an old Cistern.

On one of my treks into town I went and visited the Ancient Kas Theatre. It was in quite good condition and it had a beautiful view across form the harbour.

On one of my paddles around the shore I noticed about every 20 feet handlines left in the water. In places that could only be reached by boat and they were not attached to the land by anything. I am still curious for what reason they are there and also how they do not fall in the water. On a visit by Dingy into shore in the evening I asked Baz to take me to see them and they were all gone.. They must hope to catch something thru the day and collect in the night!

We are sad to be leaving but as Baz always say’s “when you fall in love with something you will go broke” So we are not in LOVE with Kas just Lust…….

We will sail to Kastellorizo……….