Hotel room view from the mini-balcony, over Kaş. Despite being a long way from Greece, that large island is Greek territory.

A day off, from sea kayaking. After breakfast, and a short wander, most of the group went for a Turkish bath, which was a good fun experience, and we hadn't expect to facepack's painted on afterwards. So there was a while with a greenish tinged mixture adorning everyone's face... and much hilarity. Some also chose to have a more serious massage, than basic one after our steaming session. I'd been having fairly major back pain issues prior to the holiday, and was still taking basic pain killers, so thought it best to not risk that, even though it may have been beneficial. After all that everyone felt incredibly mellow and relaxed.

Quiet afternoon for me, with a swim in the pool, that had black olives dropping into from the surrounding trees, and a sunshine snooze amongst two or three cats that were lurking around the poolside. Others were trying out scuba diving, or paragliding.

Evening meet up at one of the bars, some food shopping with the main guide, Altay, for the overnight camp we'd be on the following night, and exploring some of the shops and market for a while.

Extras - the hotel and its beautiful Bougainvillea; and a montage with the nearby mosque as seen from the mini-balcony, Pomegranates and Lemon trees in fruit by the hotel, and one of several rather stunning Hibiscus flowers that were also by the hotel.

Something new to me was the call to prayer that was broadcast from the mosque, several times a day. I liked it. When we'd been in the large bay of islands off Göcek, and staying with the boat, the call to prayer wouldn't have been loud enough for people to hear out in the bay, so a loud bang, possibly a blank fired by a gun, was discharged at the associated times of day. Bit alarming for us lot, before finding out what it was for.

Note in the above, and the mosque photo, the building water tanks are all up on the roof, with heating of the water being achieved by a simple pipe array that catches the heat from the sun, and stores it in one of the tanks. We should be doing far more of the likes of that back at home, even if we're nothing like as hot or sunny as here, it all makes a difference. Obviously the power/CO2 generating companies wouldn't approve of us doing such things... or the politicians that profit from them.