Göcek & the Twelve Islands
Twelve islands inside one enormous protected bay. Nothing is more than an hour away, which makes it the easiest week on this coast with small children.
The Logbook
NIMARA · CARIAN COASTHow the week runs
Boarding is at 15:30 on the first day, disembarkation after breakfast on the eighth. In between, the captain sets the order of the anchorages each morning from the forecast — the stops stay the same, the sequence moves.
What is included
- The vessel, the full crew, fuel for the standard route and all anchorage fees
- Three meals a day cooked aboard, plus five o'clock tea
- Bed linen, towels, snorkel gear and the tender
- Not included: drinks, meals ashore, port taxes on Greek islands, crew gratuity
What you eat
Turkish breakfast every morning — white cheese, olives, tomato, honeycomb, eggs to order. Meze at anchor for lunch: stuffed vine leaves, olive-oil artichokes, grilled octopus, whatever the market had. Dinner aboard most nights, ashore two. Tell us about allergies, vegetarians and halal at booking, not on the day.
Göcek and the Twelve Islands
Thirty anchorages inside one enormous protected bay, none more than an hour from the next, all of it inside a national park. It is the easiest cruising ground in Türkiye and the reason a village of four thousand people has six marinas.
What there is to do here
Wade the Yassıca lagoon
Low flat islets with water between them shallow enough to walk. Line ashore to a rock; full by four in August, empty in May.
Walk the ruins on Tersane
An abandoned Greek village and the shipyard that named the island, left in 1923. Go up before breakfast while it is cool.
Find the Bedri Rahmi fish
Painted on the rock in 1973 and repainted by his students ever since. Lycian rock tombs up the hill behind it.
Swim over a Roman bath
Hamam Koyu has a submerged bath house in two metres of water. Use the buoys — anchoring on the masonry is not allowed.
See Ölüdeniz from the water
The lagoon is a car park from the road and something else entirely from the sea. Butterfly Valley is on the way.
The week, day by day
Saturday to Saturday: aboard from 15:30 on the first day, one bay that evening, then two bays most days and the last night on the Friday. Ashore after breakfast on the second Saturday. Want five nights, or ten? Say so and we redraw it.
Aboard from 15:30, papers and a safety briefing, then one short hop to the first anchorage for dinner and the first swim.
A morning swim where you woke up, a two-hour passage at most, lunch at anchor in the second bay and the night wherever the wind is kindest.
A morning swim where you woke up, a two-hour passage at most, lunch at anchor in the second bay and the night wherever the wind is kindest.
A morning swim where you woke up, a two-hour passage at most, lunch at anchor in the second bay and the night wherever the wind is kindest.
Breakfast alongside, then ashore by 09:30. Most guests take the late flight and leave their bags with us for the day.
National park rules apply: no anchoring on posidonia where buoys are laid, and the rangers do come round. Every bay here has a restaurant with a jetty, so this is the easy week for a group that does not want to cook.
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