Docking at Canakkele 21st April 2015. Canakkele is the nearest port to Gallipoli, and docking was really important over the next few days as it gave us easy access back to the ship. It was about a 30 min ride to where the ferry was supposed to go from, and then we took a ferry across the Dardenelles to the Gallipoli peninsular.
These ferries are huge and the are about four of them at this time.on the 21st wenot directly across, it took another 30 mins.
Finally we were on the Gallipoli peninsular. This trip we were free to move around and visit all the ANZAC cemeteries.
This is our first view of the beaches where the ANZAC forces landed.
When we reached our first stop, the first thing we saw was a war cemetery.
The path to the beach cemetery.
The memorial to unnamed buried here.
More of beach cemetery. This is only one of about 40 cemeteries here, every corner there is another. The scale of devastation here has to be seen to be believed.
The plaque asking visitors to respect this place, and not to use it for picnics. Some people had put poppies on the Graves, and there were RST and RSA wreaths on many of the memorials.
We were starting to realise the extent of the carnage, and this was only the first cemetery.
Atuturk's famous speech about the Mehmets and the Johnnies lying side by side in these Graves, and they could now rest in peace as they were in friendly soil. Sorry for the shadow.
We carried on along the beach of ANZAC cove. It is about 800 mtrs long, and there are countless cemetery sites along there.
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