36.17.63 N 30.09.01 E
We were woken by our next pilot at 04.30 in the morning
and we were on our way before 5; just as it was getting light.
Again another very nice guy. We met the south bound
convoy this time; sometimes scary to see this big fellows coming towards you.
But again the pilot was behind the wheel, so he knew what he was doing. By
11.30 we were in Port Said, where the pilot was picked up by a pilot boat.
We said goodbye to him and gave him is baksheesh, some money t-shirts and
cigarettes to share with the guys on the pilot boat. We were glad to get out of
the harbour as many small boat were coming from all directions and sometimes
quiet close.
We had an uneventful three nights and two and a half
days at sea to get to Turkey. We managed some sailing, but there was not much
wind. We got to Finike marina early Monday morning and crossed our line just
outside the marina: We had sailed around the world!! Ten years ago, on May 5th,
2005 we arrived in Cyprus to start this adventure.
It was so great to be tied up in a marina in Turkey
again with hundreds of other boats, one of which was a friend of our who we had
last seen two years ago in Pangkor; he had gone the extra 9000 miles around
South Africa.
It was great to get the many reactions and
congratulations on Facebook.
We have cleaned the boat of salt and red dust and have
booked our flight back home to the UK for 3/4 weeks, leaving on Saturday. We
look forward to catching up with Kirsten, Mark and Lanah, our mothers and the
rest of family and friends. The back to cruising in the Med.
