In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we tell you all about the wasp invasion that happened at a really beautiful Turkish anchorage.

Will the wasp invasion keep us from going back to that anchorage? No it won't, but we'll probably visit the anchorage when it's not the height of summer.

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Closed Captions (CC):
the boat is not ship shaped in any way

shape or form

that's a mouthful of ships

anyhoo we have just basically got the

boat

ready enough to go the wasps are just

not as many as last night no but they're

still in your face as you're trying to

do stuff

i've been stung once so i don't really

want to get stung again

[Music]

i'm barry i'm ann sher this is the

continuing journey of sailing abc

this is not the best low-light camera

um but it's the handiest one for what i

want to film

it's 5 45 in the morning and

it looks like we're in for part two of

attack of the wasps i filmed a little

segment last night about the wasps when

they came in just before sunset

and

there was probably about

i don't know 15 wasps hanging around the

cockpit

just generally checking out things

well after i put the camera down it got

progressively worse and i think at some

point

um the whole boat was just being

checked out by wasps i wouldn't say

attacked because that's not what they

were doing they were just checking

things out curious creatures

and um

there must have been

visually

probably

somewhere around a hundred

so wasps uh the back now this morning

because we're still in the same position

obviously there's no wind so they know

exactly where we are

and i can hear them outside and i can

just see them against the uh

the sun so i'll put the camera out and

we'll see what we can pick up but yeah

the plan this morning was to get up

early um film the sunrise

uh film a segment for the anchorage

series about this bay because apart from

the wasps it is a great place

and then we were going to take the shore

and we were going to fly the drone

but

now that is all contingent on how long

the wasps want to stay here check us out

such a shame it's now 7 45 a.m and the

general horde of wasps seem to have gone

off to

fresher pastures there are one or two

still around the boat and i think what

they're doing is they're collecting the

moisture from the dewfall that came

overnight they're industrious i'll give

them that but luckily now it seems the

worst of it is over and that gives us

time to do some filming and fly the

drone

[Music]

okay we're coming to rocks

rocks

rocks

big rocks

we just come up on the beach and i can

see this well-worn trail here and i

thought

you know i didn't think that

small animals that would make a trail

that small

you know followed exactly the same trail

every time enough to wear out an actual

path

and when we come up here

we find the source

of the animal

happens to be

insects

ants

as you know they just continually march

in one direction finding food and bring

it back to the nest

and they're actually making a second

path

out that way

amazing

sadly all of the beaches that we're

coming across these days

and ever since we left spain

have

some

evidence or more than some evidence

of

the waste that we're producing out of

plastic

there's also a lot of um

fishing nets and fishing line here

probably because there's a lot of

fishing going on here in this area

but in amongst it all there are still

shells to be found

[Music]

happy with that buzz

yeah uh hopefully

um it's always very difficult looking on

the phone whether everything's in focus

when you've got just the right height

and the right angle

i think we've got some good shots of abc

which are going to be used for future

promotional purposes yeah

the truth will reveal itself once we

plug it into the computer

okay

there's biting flies it's hot i know

it's only eight o'clock in the morning

but i'm already sweating

and the biting flies are really annoying

now so

time to get the boat ready

and do our two-hour run

to did him

um and hopefully civilization means

fewer biting flies and fewer wasps

the boat is not ship shaped in any way

shape or form

that's a mouthful of ships

anyhoozle we have just basically got the

boat ready enough to go the wasps are

just

not as many as last night no but they're

still in your face

as you're trying to do stuff

i've been stung once so i don't really

want to get stung again

all right snub her up and then when

you're ready anchor up

nine o'clock departure should be in by

just after eleven o'clock

should also be a sign

associated with the fish farms like you

know

wasp nest wasp nest wasp nest wasp nest

this segment brought to you by raid

enough contents in one can to kill 10

million wasps plus one

this is obviously some sort of seafood

industry it's not a fish farm per se it

just seems to be a lot of boys hanging

around in uh kind of straight lines so

if anybody knows what they're farming

there we'd be interested if you could

leave a comment down below

do you remember when we were walking

around yelakovac and we showed you those

uh cute little boats in the in the yard

just found out that they are real and

they're used in the fishing farm

industry

it's so calm and there's any gentle

breeze

water is really like liquid satin

i just spotted a dolphin

off the starboard bow and the turtles

just popped his head up here

but we're not after turtles he'll be

well deep by now

the dolphins are

somewhere off there

that's did him ahead of us

uh did him d marion marina is on the

corner there

and then there's a couple of anchorages

in the middle and we're going in to the

main anchorage which is at the main

beach of the main town

and hopefully we should get into around

about six meters of depth there

[Applause]

and just like that we're indeed him

pretty uneventful really wasn't it yeah

was apart from running scared from the

wasps

so did him what we're going to do here

is we're going to reprovision i think

all we've got left in the fridge is uh

four sausages um that's it maybe some

vegetables rotting away at the bottom uh

so we've got no beer

um no water oh yeah we need we need

another big batch of bottled water yeah

um

so we can get all of that here in didhim

um today being monday we've got to check

our emails because boat insurance is

coming into play within the next well

this week sometime and so um

the one that we're with

is like really expensive and we've heard

from other yachties that you can get

your boat insured in turkey

at a much more agreeable price so we put

our feelers out on friday obviously

weekend nothing happens we'll find out

today when we switch the computers on

and uh we'll go from there and once i've

got all the insurance sorted out i'll

have a chat to the camera and you guys

uh yeah so a great day here um

it's huge there's plenty of room for

i don't know many many yachts to anchor

um the holding is looking good it's a

lot of sand uh with weed but the weed

patches you can go oh i don't want to go

there i'll drop my anchor in sand

uh we're in uh uh six meters

um

went in easily on the side yeah water's

clear ass yeah yeah yeah so a nice spot

here all the amenities great holding

good protection from the wind if you're

looking for a quiet anchorage this won't

be the one for you

because there are bars and

there's lots of beach activity there are

banana boats and jet skis power cruisers

there is a pier over on the west side

where all of the day tripper boats

um hang out when they're not doing their

thing and when they leave they do a tour

of the

base so play with playing their music

music so you know

but we're here with

mainly to provision and it's a good stop

yeah before we go up to custer yeah

looking forward to that

all right well let's put this boat to

bed and um we'll come back to you guys

later yeah

this is our first afternoon and did him

[Music]

she's actually gone to scotch at this

time of day that's unusual of course

we've got towboats towing all sorts of

things behind them

we got the day trooper boats returning

we've got several daytime clubs which

will probably turn into nighttime clubs

over here all playing

competing music and

you can't really hear one sound or the

other

it is

quite

lively let's say

over there is a yellow marker

that's a jet ski

there's another yellow marker over there

now the jet skis that higher they're

meant to just travel between the yellow

barkers backwards and forwards

but they don't they think our boat is a

yellow marker too and can i just say

these are non-noise cancelling

headphones and i'm trying to do audio

this day trip is coming back in and he's

going our sound systems bigger than your

sound system

it is utter

audio and

motion matters anyhoos

this is the big bay it did

if you don't like this kind of and

you can't put up with it during the day

and probably music from the beach bars

until midnight do not anchor here

uh tomorrow

we're gonna do one of two things we're

either going to go

closer to where these day tripper boats

park

um oh

drink more scotch

see this face see his face stressed

or

we're gonna go into the first bay next

to the marina

uh if the space

uh because we know there's it's peaceful

and quiet there and we can nip into the

marina and go and use the

microsupermarket in the marina we got

most of what we needed in town today

it's hard to tell there could be

three well there's definitely three

maybe four maybe five oh different beach

clubs uh competing musically against

each other who's got the biggest

amplifier

and um deep down inside of me i'm

thinking what i should do is get a usb

together with uh late 80s early 90s

soul funk

house and trance and just go over there

and show them how it's done

i'll work for beer you know what i'm

saying

[Music]

i would

i'm not sure the djs are like that

though

the issue with the wasab's at the last

anchorage before we came to did him uh

just keeps revealing itself ancia has

just poured herself some water from the

kettle

and

poured out two wasps into

the

cup she was going to use

so we checked inside the kettle

and found some more wasps

dead of course

so in total

four wasps alone dead inside the kettle

two wasps dead inside anchor's uh head

forward head

um so no wonder the the the whole team

of wasps were surrounding our boats

six dead wasps sending off their

pheromones oh my god i'm dead this boat

killed me

i'm hoping that essence of wasp that i'm

drinking will act like a little

homeopathic medicine and it will um

help the wasp sting go down

bit the histamine reaction going on

there it's not too bad just want to

scratch it

the nightclubs or day clubs

beach clubs have uh now reduced the

decibel level of the music

and they're no longer competing it looks

like one was just like a daytime beach

club and it seems like one is going to

be the

nighttime club

they've still got some music going on

and i can see some lights happening

um anyway that's not what i'm talking

about right now talking about the sunset

we are in did him still and people have

said what do you do

when you're on board well i'll tell you

what we do

and i'll show you what we do

right there is my computer

a pair of binoculars to see people who

are in the way of high-powered vessels

going by

right there is anchor's computer

right there is my drink right there is

anchor's drink it's probably about what

eight o'clock

what is it eight o'clock somewhere

like that about now yeah

right there is the sun setting it's

cooled down now it's lovely

makes a big difference

so daytime turns to night time in the

big bay and did him um the jet skis have

all gone the

banana boats have all gone we're still

the only yacht

in the bay

uh we'll probably move

into the middle bay tomorrow morning

and

we're gonna see what happens with this

club here tonight

i mean if it's just one club and they're

playing good music and they've got a

light show

i'm look i'm happy to look at that

offshore

um but yeah

people say what do you do yeah we just

had our dinner

we're drinking our drinks

watching the sunset

and waiting to see what happens i'm sure

that's what we do pretty much most of

the nights

[Music]

ah

[Music]

[Applause]

now the sun's gone down and all the

lights are coming on it's actually quite

pretty

and there's the moon and venus

new flashing light

it's like a disco in my princess suite

at night time

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