Turkey travel report visit Guemuesluek on the Bodrum peninsula by Yacht

On your yachtcharter holiday near Bodrum peninsula you will surely take the opportunity to have a stopover for a night in the lovely bay of Guemuesluk.
Guemuesluek is a natural safe bay with nice anchorage, a few holiday homes in the typical old turkish style and mentionable are it´s famous fish-tavernas all along the bay´s waterfront!

There is an old small castle that can be visited by walking through the kneedeep watered shallow water - formerly it was known as "rabbit island".
The entrance from the sea is possible without any problems, but keep your eyes open, there are some rocks close to the SE-entrance that muts be considered (no problem, when watching out!)

Most boats enter to the bay and drop their anchor inside lefthanded were the water is 4-10m deep and the ground holds very good. Other than in most turkish bays, the use of lines to the land is not usual, the boats float and circle around their anchor, but mostly the wind comes from NW anyway, so the direction is clear.
One can moore stern to quai as well, but often Gulets are there and they are usually noisy by music or aircondition generator running all night, so anchorage is surely the better choice.The Harbour master collects a mooring-fee, when the boat is staying on the quai, but there is water and electricity available and it´s much cheaper of course, than the nearby Marina of Turgut Reis.

In the summertime, nearly everybody having a holiday-home or a boat in and around Bodrum comes out here often for dinner and the restaurants are packed and all tables full very quick - make sure, you have a reservation for the evening, especially, when you are a bigger group. All places offer a high quality of extraordinary good fish dishes, so it´s everybody`s own choice, where to go! Prices are not cheap, but acceptable for fish, which is nowhere cheap in Turkey (30-45 Euro/kg is a normal price in 2006). But the preparation is very good, so it´s woth the money indeed!

Some small "markets" offer fruits and other goods on a little higher prices than somewhere else - it´s a tourist spot, so it´s quite normal.
But fresh bread and other things up to telephone-cards are as well available.

Choose from here below your next destination

From Kusadasi, you can sail to the Marina of Turgut Reis (5 nm) city of Bodrum (Marina Milta)in the southeast followed by Goekova bay, or northerly to the bay of Guelluek with many small anchorages on the northern coast of the Bodrum peninsula or Iassos or Altinkum. Others sail to Kalymnos-City (about 10 nm Port of Entry) or Kos (about 12 nm Port of Entry)

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