Selimiye to Marmaris and we rescued Fred

Town dock in background.

After Knidos we went to Selimiye.  It was really, really hot and we wanted a place to dock and get electricity.  The town dock was full but Papa found us a place in front of a restaurant.  We liked this place a lot.  We could swim right off the dock behind our boat.  

Very clear water 10 feet deep.

Tutu and Papa ate at the restaurant each night while Zachary and I ate dinner on the boat.   One night Tutu gave us a can of Dinty Moore Beef Stew and it was great!  I've never eaten this before.  It was like carrots and potatoes and a gravy filled with tiny bits of hamburger meat but really was beef chunks.  I want my mom and dad to buy some of this when we get home.  Tutu said they don't sell it here in Turkey and that was the only can she had on the boat.  Another night Tutu and Papa brought us some fried calamari from their dinner at the restaurant.  I ate the good ring pieces and Zachary ate the scrawny one with the tentacles.  That was great!

Me on the boat.  We could swim right at the back of our
boat when docked at the restaurant.

After a few days we moved to the town dock to get better electricity.  We could not swim there and we stayed inside the boat most of the time trying to stay cooled off.  Papa found the town bakery and we went there almost every day to buy fresh bread.  They also had some cookie things.  One day the baker made hamburger buns.   We could not find a store in Selimiye that sold any meats, just chicken.  But Tutu had one package of ground beef in the freezer and we had hamburgers as a special treat.   It was very hot inside the bakery because the windows didn't open up.  One day the baker man didn't wear a shirt and his tattoos showed.


One day we found a place that sold chicken doner kebabs.  This is a big flour tortilla wrapped around shaved bits of chicken breast that has been roasted on a vertical spit.  Papa thought it wouldn't taste right, but it did.  In Marmaris the Samurai Kebab man that Tutu and Papa like so much puts chopped tomato and lettuce and a couple of french fries inside the doner kebab.  In Selimiye the man didn't put anything except the chicken and ketchup and mayonnaise.  I like the ones in Marmaris better but this one was pretty good for lunch.

Captain Ozman with the gold teeth

We met Captain Ozman.  He has a restaurant on the town quay.  And his teeth are all gold!  He said he sailed here from Greece many years ago and he brought all his money inside his mouth.  I don't know if he has a boat anymore.  We ate dinner one night at his restaurant and shared traditional Turkish cold starters and 2 traditional casseroles -- 1 beef and 1 shrimp.  His restaurant is known for their casseroles.  I did not care for the cold starters so I had a bowl of fresh tomato soup.  It had tiny strands of some kind of pasta in it and I loved it.

That tiny island had an old stone tower built on it.
It was lined up with the old castle on the hill.
We never found out what this was or how old it is.

Castle ruins on hill

We stayed in Selimiye for 9 nights.  We loved it.  It was one of my favorite places of the summer.  Finally we left because my parents and baby brother are arriving soon and will meet us in Marmaris.  And Marmaris was about 50 miles away.

I liked to feed the ducks in Selimiye

As we got to the bottom of the peninsula there was a charter boat that was coming at full speed from our starboard side, so they were the stand-on vessel.  Papa turned right to go behind them.  And suddenly they turned left and were heading straight for us.  So Papa turned back left again to avoid hitting them.   



Like a lot of the charter boats we have seen, there were too many experts on that boat.  A French woman screamed at us and made hand motions at us.  Then they passed behind us and our fishing line went screaming out really fast.  We think that our fishing line got caught on their propeller.  All the fishing line went out and we lost our lure and all the line.  

Wine grapes grew over the path at this restaurant
at Selimiye

We sailed on and we saw Fred in the water ahead of us.  We tried to get alongside of Fred but couldn't get the boat to go slow enough.  So Tutu circled the boat and came back up to Fred on the bow and Papa used a pole to pull Fred up to the boat and lifted him up.  We had rescued Fred!  Fred is now friends with Pinky, who was rescued in Fethiye when we first arrived last month.


Fred and Pinky are good fenders.  


I think that some stupid charter boats sailing with their fenders hanging down on both sides into the water lost these fenders.  We salvaged them from the sea so now they are ours.


Tutu and Papa said they didn't feel so bad about losing the fishing line and lure because the fender was worth more than those.

Playing the Diva (again)

We stopped in Serce Limani for one night.  We went swimming a lot.  I really like it there.  One of the local men who come around trying to sell us stuff went outside the bay and came back dragging a really nice dinghy with burgundy chaps and good engine.  He salvaged it from the sea.  He saw it floating out on the sea with no boat around, so he went out and saved it.  I guess he gets to keep it.


Yesterday we motored to Marmaris and anchored near the marina.  This morning we docked at Yat Marin marina.  My parents and Damien should arrive tomorrow night.  I can't wait!


(Tutu typed this for me because it takes me so long to type.  I told her what to write and she typed it.)


P.S.  I just lost my second molar!  Seems like every summer I lose a tooth while visiting aboard BeBe.