I'M ON A BOAT

Arrival/Day 1

After our flight from Istanbul we had one night at the hostel before getting on the boat. We were exhausted after no sleep the previous night and so pretty much slept the whole day/night. We were meant to be on the boat at 4pm, however, we had to wait for over an hour outside the tour place until we were finally taken to our boat! Once on the boat, we were assigned our rooms. Rosie and I were sharing a double bed down one end of the boat. Each room had it’s own ensuite and we were pretty happy to be getting a room to ourselves (a lot of the other rooms had to share between 3). The rooms were a lot nicer/more spacious than I was expecting, as when I did Sail Croatia last year, run by the same company, the rooms were absolutely unbearable.

After getting settled we all introduced ourselves… there were 18 of us (I think?), with all but 3 being girls and everyone between the ages of 18 and 25. As we were heading out from the harbour it was super rocky and one of the girls was the first to stack it… pretty lols. At 8pm it was dinner time! Luckily one of the crew members, Imat, was a former chef and made epic food every night! We had a feast of grilled fish and other assorted things like rice, potatoes, salad etc. After dinner the drinking began and everyone sort of started to go into groups. Rosie and I made mates with Guy (WHO IS COMING TO SYDNEY YOU BETTER BE READING THIS NIGSAC), who was fucking hilarious and gave us a run down of his impressions of all the boatmates likening us to the Big Brother house. We ended up getting pretty drunk with two of the other girls, Bonnie and Kylie from Perth. I told everyone I was ‘probably the best swimmer on the boat’ and wanted to go swimming but the crew said there were crabs in the water… devo (probs lying though). Bonnie decided to get her pants off and twerk on the table and ring the dinner bell (pretty hilarious) and Guy stacked it down the stairs (I didn’t see it but lols again) and threw his wine bottle into the water. Don’t think the crew were too impressed by how late we stayed up but YOBO (you only boat once).   

Sunset during dinner on the boat

Day Two

Today we went first to Butterfly Valley (supposedly a valley with lots of butterflies but because of the time of the year there were none… awesome). It was in a little cove and the bloody cliffs were blocking the sun from our tanning expeditions. In protest I tried to swim to the beach bar but halfway a jellyfish swarm attacked me. Not cool. After awhile we went to Blue Lagoon, which was my favourite place that we went on the trip. It was so pretty and sunny! Next, we sailed to another place where we were to stay for the night. There were cute little boats with little old women making Gozleme…sadly we had just had lunch and were so full we couldn’t fit it in. Devo. We were pretty hungover tonight so didn’t drink, but we did get a sick dessert which the crew carved to make look like an echidna out of fruit! 

 

Diving into the Blue Lagoon

 

Blue Lagoon

 

Gozleme Boat!

Day Three

Today was the day Guy decided to make his birthday…because you always get free shit on birthdays right? We had a swim and snorkel at some random spot and then went on to dock at a town called Kas. Here we bought some vodka (the drinks on the boat were pretty pricey and we wanted to get drunker) and one of the boys from the boat, Liam from Canberra, tried to fish. He didn’t catch any fish but he did catch a beer bottle #fail. That night we had to celebrate Guy’s birthday! We bought balloons and the crew put up a Happy Birthday sign and we all drank to his youth. We played King of Beers and oh my god, Amy (from the Central Coast, a.k.a. Fat Amy, a.k.a. Fames) had an epic rule ‘GameMaster’. The Game Master has complete control of the game when they have the Game Master card and the power may have gotten a little bit to my head when it was my turn. People had to skull their drinks left right and center… particularly Guy who then booted up his dinner. We then had birthday cake thanks to Captain Kahn, but Guy threw his into the water #ungrateful. Caitlin from Canberra hooked up with the captain and could absolutely not remember a thing the next day. At about 3am she knocked on the door of our room with no pants on and threw up in our toilet… I had to go and get her clothes from Kahn’s room and then demonstrate to Kahn how to properly lie her on her side instead of her back so she wouldn’t choke on her own vom. Great night.

 Liam fishing - if you look closely you can see all the fish!

 Fail jump off the boat

SELFIEZ WITH FRIENDZ

Day Four

Today we stopped in Kerkova for the day which was a cute little town with lots of markets and shops. I bought a few presents and some chill pants for myself and we got homemade peach, banana and hazelnut icecream mmmm. Next we went to Smuggler’s Bay and chilled out, trying to sleep off the hangover. That night we had ‘small boat service’ take us out to a club. We got fuckkkkeed up. I decided it would be a great idea to make mates with the bartender and everytime I would go to the bar he would pour me a drink and then pour vodka in my mouth. Then later in the night I became the bartender… and was making drinks for everyone behind the bar and not charging them… swag. Don’t remember much but I went to pee and lost my shoes then pretended to everyone that some bitch stole them. The next morning told everyone the truth… muahahaha. Passed out with my head on the toilet seat… pretty classy. Rosie apparently more drunk than me and did not get out of bed the whole of the next day.

 

Sunbaking on deck

 Kerkova

 Amazing icecream

 

Playing Titanic

Day Five

Literally nothing happened today. Everybody was so fucked from last night and we just laid around and chilled. Got some pretty bad news from Kahn… storm was a’coming. Fuck. Tried to sleep on the deck but got rained on so had to sleep inside. Rocky night…

 Having a swim!

Day Six

Worst day. Being stuck on a boat in the freezing cold rain is not fun especially when there is next to no shelter. Everybody was in a bad mood and getting a bit snippy. We docked in Fethiye and being the princess I am, I checked into a hotel with Fames. Didn’t have to pay though which was good. Had the worst nachos known to man… where was the cheese? I have no idea. Most people went out drinking tonight but I was still feeling like ass so just had a frozen Pina Colada and then back to my warm hotel.

Day Seven

Last day on the boat. Most people were still staying in Fethiye so goodbyes weren’t so sad. We chilled. And slept. Noice.

Cheerz to Guy for the prompts from our trip. It’s all a little bit of a blue, hungover blur for me but I had loved the boat and met some sick people! Would 100% recommend to anyone going to Turkey. It’s an epic way to see the coastline. Just hopefully for you it doesn’t storm .