Yacht Quo Vadis

Cyprus

We stayed in Herzliya long enough to get a new mainsail made and the European school holiday rush to be over in Cyprus, we knew the marina at Larnaca was always overflowing onto the dock and that too always full…

UK

Herzliya Marina was a secure place to leave Quo Vadis while I took a trip to Britain for some re-education…

Entering Israel by private yacht was one of our most frustrating, but interesting experiences with ‘authorities’…

Israel

Amman is essentially now a modern Arab city but is Philadelphia of Roman times…

Petra, a ‘rose-red city’, is in neighbouring Jordan and very accessible from Ashkelon…

We waited for what appeared to be a good weather window and left Abu Tig Marina in near calm for the last and hardest leg of the Red Sea, the Gulf of Suez…

We abandoned Quo Vadis to the care of Abu Tig Marina and took an 8 day trip along the Nile…

Dolphin Reef is in Egyptian territorial waters, although we are tolerated there without permit or clearance, landing on the mainland (like inadvertant border crossing!) is not allowed by the ever present military!

By early February Quo Vadis had served her time in Salalah, we were both back in Oman, yachts were coming into port daily from the Maldives, we were ready to join them and move on!