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After Kekova we made our way further East and had a night in the marina at Finike so that we could go to the market to fill the fridge and the fuel pontoon to fill the tanks.  Finike showed very few signs of tourism and the market was completely geared to the local community unlike those we had visited so far where there have been as many stalls for the tourists as the locals.  Consequently we deployed our impressive ability to count to five which, in conjunction with pointing and smiling meant we conducted every transaction without using any English.  Buoyed by our success we stepped into what looked like the Turkish equivalent of a WI market in that it was lots of ladies selling cakes.  Always on the hunt for baklava we thought this could be just the place, and it was.  Homemade and delicious and the ladies were very anxious that it was packed safely enough for the ride in our rucksacks back to the boat.

As always, we enjoyed our experiences there but Finike isn’t somewhere we will hurry back to other than to stock up and we were pleased to set off the next day for a night at anchor.

We had heard a lot about Cineviz Limani.  How beautiful it was, unspoilt, dramatic, uncrowded and so on, so with high hopes we arrived to find it full of boats and a lot of rubbish floating on the water.  The scenery was stunning so we looked up rather than down and settled for the night.  To our delight many of the boats left at dusk and by next morning the wind and tide had cleared every bit of rubbish so the water was fabulous and tempting enough for the first swim of the year.  By mid morning sadly the rubbish was drifting back in, all of it stuff that will take forever to degrade and could easily have been disposed of properly.  It was a bit of a shock after the bays we have visited  where, so far, we have been impressed by how pristine everything is.

We took the dingy ashore for a short walk over the isthmus to look into the next bay which had also looked very promising as an anchorage although it isn’t mentioned in the Pilot Guide so there may be a reason for not going there.  It looked fantastic so we will find out more about it another time.

Now we need to head back West again to return to Gocek to pick up our first visitor.

Finike.  No wonder the wind is still cold with that amount of snow on the hills.

Tashi Delek in Cineviz Limani and the view into the next bay.

The skipper multitasking showing that it is possible to shell peas and watch where you are going at the same time.