Last day

Our flights home are at 1.30am tomorrow morning so today we decided to go on a departure day trip. It meant checking out at 8.30am, and being picked up with our luggage.
We went first of all to Dalayan and joined a river boat cruising the Dalayan River and it's reed beds...where the river scenes in Bogart's African Queen were filmed.
The boat took us past the Lycian tombs carved in the limestone cliffs at Kaunos, they date from 400BC. You can't go up to them, and you couldn't without ropes and full climbing rig anyway. They were looted long ago and now lie empty.
These are the so called tombs of the Kings and are extravagantly carved frontages in front of simple caves. There are more simple caves carved into the rock for the ordinary people as well. You can visit what remains of the Roman city of Kaunos nearby, so that's something for next time as it's quite a hike! Next a stop in a local restaurant for lunch then off to the mud baths, the second image is of the steps into the mud pool which was about 4 ft deep ...pictures are censored, suffice to say a lot of mud was involved and I am now incredibly beautiful!...the place we went to was very peaceful and part of the natural landscape, very different to one we visited about 10 years ago.
Next we went to Turtle beach, a long, 5k beach backed on one side by the river and the other the sea, a busier area with sunbeds, we had washed off the mud before coming here! We had an hour and a half to relax and go for a swim then... on returning to our boat.... I was thrilled to see loggerhead turtles. The area is a protected breeding ground and although we had heard they were there, we'd never seen them before, my shot is very poor, but I was so excited to see them swimming around the boat, at least 2ft in length, they swam around our boat, turning on their sides, flippers and heads bobbing in and out of the water always just as I had lowered my camera. The area is maintained by international volunteers who protect the turtle breeding ground on the beach and at the edge of the river in the sand dunes, you can only visit for half the day and the area is closed in certain months. Back on our boat, and through the read needs seeing cormorants, jays, kingfishers, eagles as we went.
A wonderful day, we went to a new hotel where we checked in and rested, went for a walk and had dinner before being picked up at 10.45pm for our 20 minutes airport transfer.
We had fantastic way to spend our last day in Turkey, glad we are coming back on Friday not Wednesday /Thursday during storm Ali.