Who would have known, the last week of August is a big sailing week in Gokova Bay. All the private sailboats were out, trying to capture the last moments of freedom before kids had to get back to school. Our Captain is super savvy making sure we weren't going to collide with other charter yachts, but he wasn't expecting such a crowd of private sailboats parked in every cove!

We went to the English Harbor - saw Erdogan's palace - and moved around a bit until we finally found a special little nook in Lira.

From Lira, you can look straight on to Cleopatra Island, where Cleopatra and Mark Anthony swam, and the special white sand beach with sand fabled to have been brought in from Egypt for the couple in love, or, political union.

BTW, each kernel of this sand is allegedly the same size, and ignites on fire, but only in Egypt and in Turkey.