Merhaba,
It’s Saturday and the weather has gone from morning gray skies and wind gusts of 23 knots to bright sunshine and steady winds of about 17 knots. Mary and Rick called for us about 10 am for a walk around town and we got back just as some sprinkles started. But then the sun came out! Our laundry had been piling up as the sun seemed to have gone someplace other than Marmaris for days, so when I saw the sun come out, I quickly put in a wash of socks, underwear and three of Randal’s turtleneck jerseys. As the wind is still howling I’m hoping the small laundry will dry quickly and not blow away. I learned my lesson about using lots of clothes pins! At 2pm I’m off to a meeting of marina “elves” that Gwen has organized to help with the cruiser December events. This email shows some of the last days of summer.
Ru
DoraMac
This was our weather Friday afternoon and it’s the same weather predicted for the next several days !
It was mostly overcast Friday but Saturday afternoon it rained fiercely! The marina Marinaros (the sea version of cowboys) came around asking boat owners to add more lines for security. DoraMac wasn’t moving around much, but last night the wind did pick up and make a racket causing every chain anywhere on the boat to clang. During a break in Friday’s rain Randal and I walked to town for our dὄner lunch but got caught just as we started back. We’re lucky we are now on B dock at the marina entrance rather than on A dock at the far side. This man’s umbrella must be quite sturdy as the wind was whipping up too. Our umbrella was useless later in the evening when we walked to L dock for a great pizza dinner made by Sue and Ed (from Iowa) on their catamaran Angel Louise. We’d walked half way to their boat before we began to wonder why we hadn’t driven the motorbike. But by then the rain was light and as I’d eaten 3 pieces of pizza (but skipped a piece of apple pie Randal had made for dessert) I was glad for the walk back to DoraMac.
It’s the very tail end of summer and the beginning of the “winter season” here in Marmaris. Lots of shops have closed and the population seems to have dropped back to about 30,000 from the summer high of about 200,000. Rain notwithstanding, we think we’ll really the like the winter season.
In the warmer weather the haze makes the distant mountains shades of blue/ gray.
Sunny Marmaris
Drying out the sails on this wooden gullet.
Many waterfront restaurants have closed, but not all, though most tables remain empty.
A great waterfront apartment built over one of the restaurants; maybe his restaurant?
One of the last few warm mornings to sit at the beach.
The masts off in the distance are at Yacht Marine which is actually about 7miles driving the coast road. We were at Yacht Marine our first visit to Turkey but opted for Netsel Marina in town for this winter stay.
Closed shops along the main road in town.
But our favorite Aciktim is open all year round; now it’s one of Rick and Mary’s favorites too.
We have learned to get there before noon or after 1 pm to avoid the crush of school kids who fill the seats at Aciktim and the dὄner place across the way. The weather is now cool enough for long sleeves and jeans, but not always sweaters. Interesting to me, as I always seem to feel colder sooner than other folks, I’m happy with no sweater but you can see the man on the left has a jacket and many of the Turkish women are now wearing wool sweaters and ”winter” boots.
Dὄḡan of Aciktim
This week the summer weather seemed to finally end: and where there had been no clouds during the summer, now they come every day.
Mary standing on the compass-rose mosaic along the waterfront.
You can see the masts of Netsel Marina off to the left and way in the back between the hills you can see Yacht Marina.
“ A compass rose, sometimes called a windrose, is a figure on a compass, map, nautical chart or monument used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions—North, East, South and West—and their intermediate points. It is also the term for the graduated markings found on the traditional magnetic compass. Today, the idea of a compass rose is found on, or featured in, almost all navigation systems, including nautical charts, non-directional beacons (NDB), VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) systems, global-positioning systems (GPS), and similar equipment and devices.” Wikipedia.
http://www.gisnet.com/notebook/comprose.php also gives an interesting explanation of “compass-rose.”
When you leave the marina and walk the waterfront there are still some commercial tourist boats. But just past this point the waterfront is now empty.
The waterfront area had been filled with commercial tourist boats; now it’s empty.
Even Ataturk had to hold on to his hat in the wind!
This town worker wanted his photo taken so I did!
We saw these funny “rabbits” in a yard in town.
Next email will be photos of the arrival of a sail boat that had returned from Antarctica to Netsel and the news media pulled out all the stops to cover the event.