Photos from Turkish North Cyprus

Photos from a day tour to the Eastern panhandle of the ısland of Cyprus - the Roman cıty ıs called Salamıs..... the mosque was rather blatantly converted from a church ( one of 365 churches around the area ın the Venetıan tımes) to a mosque by demolıshıng the steeple and buıldıng a mınaret ınstead - sımple!!

paıntıng the lıfeboats


Salamıs, named by Solomon after hıs wıfe

Kekova vıllage, Kekova Roads


Here also are some earlıer photos of the Gılberts on Rumpus ın Kekova Roads

Murray checkıng the moorıng lınes on Rumpus

Andy Gılbert

Rumpus ın Turkısh North Cyprus

Here we are ın Turkısh North Cyprus,beautıful weather and some very ınterestıng people. A drınks do last nıght ın an old castle.... today lots of chores on the boat ( the down sıde of the lıfestyle. I suppose...

Rumpus flyıng the flags....

Sayıng good bye to Murray and Andy Gılbert

Below...the boats all moored up bow to bow

Where the Emyr rally is sailing

Rumpus is presently in Kekova roads where there are sunken towns and sarcophagi in the shallows. All well on board. Skippers report follows....

Managed to sort all the lockers today so things are a little more ship shape as we used to have them

Goodalls arrived today though I haven't seen them yet ( Pam and Keith Goodall on Savarna - their blog here)

lots of french on the rally and 2 extreme characters- 1 french - 1 owns a 44.7 but only sails on the jib much to the frustration of his crew

all seem very nice and it is great fun to be part of it all again"

May 2010 - a while since the last update!

Rumpus: Adventures in Turkey.....


Rupe has relaunched Rumpus, after two years' separation and lots of surgery and recovery ( and fortunately, recently sailing in the Hauraki Gulf.) Rupe has rejoined the Eastern Mediterranean Rally, and is on his way to the gulf of Gocek.. last heard en route to Gounos with Murray and Andrea Gilbert on board.

We did the rally in 2008 and had such a wonderful time that we are doing it again.

We are yacht 1031 in the rally, colloquially known at the EMYR - this is the twenty first year that the rally has travelled, with its fleet of brave and crazy souls, from Turkey to Egypt and all places in between. Here is the rally website: http://www.emyr.org/

To see where we are going, look here

This year we have fewer Americans and more French and British people in the rally, and a smattering of New Zealanders; ourselves, a boat called Kiwi Volant, and Keith and Pam Goodall on Savarna. Now of course this is a rally not a race, but try telling that to the boys....

I will be travelling over in a week, joining Murray, Andrea and Rupert in Alanya. Internet access is patchy, so we will see how we go with the blog!!


Gabe trying to steer High Octane on the Hauraki Gulf, Auckland April 2010

Gabe on the sand dunes, where the pied stilts live, West Coast, New Zealand Jan 2010

Our beautiful cat Mars who sadly was killed last Saturday; his nine lives were short and full of adventure, cuddles and love.

What's Rumpus doing now?

Rupe and I are back home in Auckland, with medical matters taking precedence ( see below). Also a new Burmese kitten called Mars to keep us cheerful. Gabe loves him!

Well, as I am (finally) writing the last stories of our time in Turkey, Rumpus has been journeying around Turkey, north of Marmaris, with Mark and Sally Verbeist and their friends. They have doubtless had many adventures and fine times, and we have the occasional update.

Our friend Martin Caughey, one of the original Wild Things, is travelling back to Turkey with his wife Lee, Mark Hughes and some other friends to take Rumpus out on the next excursion. Who knows where they will go or how they will go!?

Meanwhile Rupe is going through the fifth operation in the hippity hop series; he has been pretty much confined to quarters since we returned to New Zealand. What a contrast to the freedom of being on Rumpus ! So we know hospitals, public, private, Auckland, Wellington, you name it....he will get better, no doubt about it, he is under the care of a very good American surgeon now - Kelly Vince - who is working with him to make him better than ever. I can't wait!!

Fish for dinner in Fethiye

Choosing fish in the market stall in Fethiye, then 'bubble bread' at the restaurant.

Lulu and Kristin, leaving Fethiye

statue of Fethi Bey, the Turkish aviator who gave his name to Fethiye; hand embroidered scarves; Lulu with Mark Barton; Mark, Emma, George Barton and Kristin on Cowrie; K and L with Johan and Eva from 'Northern Lights'



Well it has been a very long time since this blog had any update, so this is a retrospective! We had a wonderful time in Fethiye; we caught up with some friends from the rally and ate fish in the local market-cum-restaurant plaza where you select your fish from the stalls and then choose a restaurant to cook it for you.

After leaving Fethiye we headed for the bays in the west of the Gulf of Fethiye, beautiful, deep, pine-fringed waters with the occasional ruin at the water's edge. This was going to be magic! Especially as Lulu had some friends who had run a restaurant at Cleopatra's Bath in Ruin Bay for many many years.