Bozburun Korfezi

Oglan Boguldu 17 July 2024 – 19 July 2024

We left the bay of Selimiye and motored down to the anchorage of Dirsek where Tipheret had spent several days. The bay was packed with launches and yachts stern tied all around the shoreline. It was a lovely bay, very sheltered and there was a taverna down at the bottom end. There was even a small Migros supermarket boat anchored where some of the boaties were going for some supplies in their dingies/tenders. In an area in the middle of the bay, opposite the entrance it was much shallower 10 – 20 metres, so we dropped our anchor just behind where Tipheret were.

After lunch and a swim, we left Dirsek together with Tipheret and had a nice gentle sail over to Oglan Boguldu on the other peninsular. This anchorage had been recommended from fellow New Zealander’s Tony & Dee on Rahopara.

We arrived in the bay around mid afternoon to discover that it was still relatively busy with gullets and day boaters, though some were leaving. We found a sandy spot abit further out near the island and dropped anchor in 18 metres, deciding that we would swing free at anchor for the evening. After the gullets and day boaters had left, we had second thoughts and lifted anchor and moved in just a little closer.

Around 9.00 am the following morning we had the first of the gullets come into the bay. I don’t think the captain was very impressed with us free anchoring and he actually whistled out to us and told us to stern tie as we would be taking up room for the other boats. While the anchorage was quiet we thought we would give it a go and stern tie to the rocks. We lowered the dingy and took a long line to shore which we secured to a rock. Back on board Calista we proceeded to pull on the floating line inching our way slowly closer to the rocks, then we swam the other line to shore. Tipheret remained down in the far end of the bay free swinging on anchor as they didn’t fancy stern tying to the rocks.

Later in the morning before too many boats came into the anchorage, Paul and Uli went off snorkling around the rocks then paddled a short distance out to the small island. The guys saw plenty of colourful fish in various sizes.

We loved the anchorage, and with it being very sheltered we ended up staying two nights. It’s not often that you would get these conditions, as the wind and swell normally comes from the northerly direction and the anchorage wouldn’t be protected from the swells.

I was happy swimming off the back of the boat in the aqua blue clear waters of 28.6 degrees.

The sunsets were beautiful and at night there were only a few of us left in the anchorage.

We received a message from Ermioni Marine reminding us that we needed to have an oil change carried out on the transmission after 20 hours. Great – we didn’t recall that we had to do this, otherwise we would have had the work done in Kas Marina before heading over to Turkey. We have now done 40 hours! Oh well, we will endeavour to get this done in Bozburun or Marmaris as soon as we can.

After a couple of days spent in the beautiful anchorage of Oglan Boguldu we decided it was time we head up to Bozburun where we may be able to get a Volvo technican to come to the boat and service the transmission before venturing too much further.