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After about a week in Ceşme, we headed north again, eventually landing in Bademlı, an anchorage to die for.
The bottom was all sand, with absolutely clear water
over a fairly uniform depth of 3 metres. Better yet, only 2 other boats
were there, and even they left in the end. There was little wind, and
the water was warm. Well, fairly warm. Actually, quite cool. But truly
spectacular. One of the best places we’d found in
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| Ann against one of hundreds of olive trees | Bademli anchorage facing north to Ayvalik |
The anchorage proper is at the south end of the pass between two islands, with less than 1 metre in spots (one couldn’t actually traverse the pass in the big boat.) However, there’s no land between the anchorage and the Meltemi winds, so we had to keep a sharp eye on the weather. We weren’t sure that the shallow depths would keep the sea flat should the wind pipe up. As it happens, we stopped here again on our way back south, and had 25 knots from the north all night. We were quite safe, though it was much more bumpy.
We walked the islands, and dinghied through the passes
for a few days here, and only reluctantly took up the anchor to continue
our northerly trek to Ayvalik.
