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We anchored Missy Bear in Round Bay, launched Ursa Minor, and we four glided silently around he headland and into Tomb Bay. We were on an adventure to search for ancient treasure. We beached the dinghy on a shingle shore, beneath steep, rocky cliffs clothed in pine. Godfrey and Emily stayed to guard our means of escape, while Skipper and Lewis (Tomb-Raider, aged 12) set off up the wooded hillside, in wet flip-flops, alert and beady-eyed. We had already spied some basic, ‘pige

I didn’t sleep well last night. Various boat noises kept me awake, and then live music at a marina bar played until well past 02:00. I found myself singing along to “ Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight ”, although by that time I was praying for headphones. I finally drifted off to sleep only to be woken at 03:00 by Richard, who had slept through all of the above, but was now complaining of voices chatting on a nearby boat. So, I wasn’t at my most alert, when Richard jumpe

Missy Bear anchored with two long lines ashore And so it was that Richard retrieved the two long shorelines, and hauled in the anchor at Boynuz Buku, in the bay of Gocek, enabling us to head up to the top of the bay to D-Marin, the marina that will be our home for a couple of weeks. Skipper mooched Missy Bear over to look at the fuel and waste pump-out dock, but the queue was enormous. All the charter boats were milling around in the stiff breeze, jostling for position to ref

We three children spent many happy hours and days on our parents’ allotment, set out on land leased from the National Coal Board (NCB). We mostly grew vegetables, and had some soft-fruit bushes. But we also kept hens, and fresh eggs were nearly always guaranteed outside the moulting season. Mum baked nearly every day. Our cockerel was never too popular with some of our neighbours who backed onto the allotments, as they would be woken often before dawn by a shrill, half-strang

After a voyage of 2,633 NM, Missy Bear has brought Richard and Alix safely to our destination of Gocek, on the Lycian coast of Türkiye.