At 7:00 am we woke up to some strong winds pushing us ashore; Ross said he had just gotten up to do some more Facebook. The anchor didn’t set really well the night before and Marina and I were nervous, so we lifted the anchor and set off early (7:30am what’s with that!). During this procedure Ross was pretty much useless … and he admitted that he had stayed up all night chatting on Facebook so as soon as we got the anchor up we sent him off to bed. 
We powered through some narrow passages with lots of reefs and rocks. We had hoped to sail but the winds were either on the nose or had disappeared completely. The coastline here has very high elevation right to the shore, so we are thinking that these are morning Katabatic winds quickly cancelled out by the seabreeze when the sun comes up. 
Our original plan was to go to the marina at Finike. The wind looks like it is going to be in the teens so we were thinking that we’d want to be at a proper dock. Part-way along there is a city called Kale that has an ancient castle and is adjacent to a sunken city. We pulled into a restaurant’s quay (Hasan’s Roma) and it is so pleasant, we might stay for the night here and make it to Finike tomorrow.
Also at Kale Koy is a castle and many intact sarcophagi standing in the necropolis, though many have been broken into over the last 2,000 years. We toured the castle and looked at the many ruins (Ross quipped he is being ruined by ruins) and tombs.
After running from a flock of mosquitos – haven’t seen anything like that since northern Ontario, we made it back to the boat to do some internet blogging (yay).
We had a couple of nice meals at Hassan's restaraunt - assuring us of "free" moorage for the day and night. The food was excellent and we got to know the family a bit. Had especially good fun sitting at a traditionally Turkish low table, leaving shoes outside the door.
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