38:10.15N  26:30.55E

From Samos we headed back to the Turkish coast and found another pretty anchorage for a couple of days to enjoy the warmth. 

No wind and calm sea means a spot of housework while underway.

It also, when we are lucky, means dolphins.  Glorious.  Close enough to hear them blowing and watch them below the water as well as above it.  Always a real treat and always very difficult to capture on a photograph.

We saw from the 2009 log that we had had our first swim on the 26^th May last year so, come what may, we were determined to swim no later than the same date this year.  Warm sun doesn’t mean warm water but we were very brave.  Mike’s face indicates the temperature and, yes, that really is the colour of the water.

Following a game of ‘Can you guess what it is yet’ with the grandchildren recently I realised that Mike was pretty good at drawing.  His sailing boat picture was particularly impressive giving a sense of wind and movement that my two triangles on a stick version had failed to convey.  We had often thought about having a go at sketching so decided we better get on with it.  Quick visit to an art shop in Chester with Mum and we have the basic pencils, crayons, sketch book, rubber required.  Quick visit to Amazon.co.uk and we have a couple of books on what to do.

Time, of course, we have plenty of.  Allegedly.  So here we are after two months and a sample of our combined efforts to date........

The sketchbook is out and, erm, that’s about it.