Kemer, Sea of Marmara, Turkey

N40°25.43 E027°03.90
(May 2009)
When approaching the north anchorage treat the large mooring buoy as a west cardinal because of the sand bar extending about 100 metres from the shore. We anchored north of the little harbour where the holding was OK once through the weed. The weed is devilish stuff: it’s like angel hair and is a bugger to clear off the anchor chain. Our edition of the pilot book says you can hang off the north breakwater in the harbour but it’s too shallow there now. We also tried south of the harbour where the holding was good but the shelter was better in the north. We landed the dinghy at a tiny home made jetty in the harbour. Usual wheelie skip bins in the village. The village is rather basic but we still enjoyed our stop there. There is a small shop for basics and a bakery. We had a pleasant walk up the hill from the anchorage to the other side of the headland past a small Roman ruin (a wash house?).