{"id":2353,"date":"2014-10-22T21:35:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2014-10-23T10:19:19","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T07:19:19","slug":"the-mavi-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dknolte.com\/?p=2353","title":{"rendered":"The Mavi Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bodrum, Turkey.<\/strong><\/p>\n

F<\/strong>ew weeks ago, Terese joined up with a friend and flew down to Bodrum on the southwest coast of Turkey.\u00a0 They spent four comfortable days at a very nice resort.<\/p>\n

\"101_8039\"<\/a> \"101_8010\"<\/a> \"101_8008\"<\/a>\"DSC_0531\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Below are pictures taken from the resort with the full moon.\"101_8017\"<\/a> \"101_8013\"<\/a> \"101_8012\"<\/a> \"101_8011\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Experimenting with my little camera.\"101_8033\"<\/a> \"101_8032\"<\/a> \"101_8016\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One of the many fine meals the women ate at the resort.\u00a0 Octopus.\"DSC_0502\"<\/a>I flew down and joined them the last day, then we lounged on a sailboat for five days and four nights.\u00a0 We boarded the boat about 10am and just gently motored along.\u00a0 Even though it was a sail boat, the sails were unfolded only one time.\u00a0 Terese and her friend Andrea, quickly changed into bathing suits, but I just wanted to sit, do nothing and decompress.\u00a0 That day, while they sunned and swam at the coves we dropped anchor at, I just sat in my jeans and T-shirt doing nothing.\u00a0 I needed it.<\/p>\n

The boat was called, \u201cSmall World\u201d and had three cabins.\u00a0 The crew comprised of Captain Zafar who owns the boat and is a gourmet chef.\u00a0 The 65 year old man does long distance swims as a hobby.\u00a0 He is currently training for a 6 kilometer swim next year, I think in Istanbul.\u00a0 So once a day, he would emerge from the cabin in swim gear, and jump off the boat and literally swim out of sight.\u00a0 It was an amazing thing to see.\u00a0 65 years old and he would jump into the water and swim until you could no longer determine it was a swimmer.\u00a0 30 minutes later, he would return.<\/p>\n

Along with Zafar, is his girlfriend, Bieron.\u00a0 She is 51, cute with straggly hair.\u00a0 I enjoyed watching her and Zafar interact.\u00a0 While he steered the boat, she would come and stand next to him and talk.\u00a0 He would look over at her and gently touch her cheek.\u00a0 I think they kinda like each other.\u00a0 Looking at the two below, I was most impressed by the faces that had seen a great many more sunrises and sunsets than I have.\u00a0 Such rich faces that only the sun and sea could carve.<\/p>\n

\"101_8121\"<\/a>Then, last and certainly not least, was Gokhan.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what you call the guy who helps the captain, but whatever it is, he is that.\u00a0 He is suppose to also be a fisherman, but he did not seem to be too good at that.\u00a0 He is the young man who is sitting with Terese and her friend Andrea.\u00a0 These two pics were the last two I took on the boat at the end of the tour.\"101_8120\"<\/a>\"DSC_0595\"<\/a>\"DSC_0597\"<\/a>A few pics of the boat itself.\u00a0 The first one is from the tour company, and the second is the little dingy which always trailed behind, coming to get us from the dock.\u00a0 These cruises are also known as the “Blue Cruises” because of the color of the water.\u00a0 Most places, when the GPS\/fish finder said 10 meters of water, you could still see the bottom and the fish swarming around.<\/p>\n

\"Small<\/a>\"101_8043\"<\/a>\"DSC_0555\"<\/a> \"101_8086\"<\/a>\"101_8099\"<\/a>To get an idea of what we ate; first lunch right after Zafar found a quiet place to drop anchor.\u00a0 Incredibly tasty pasta!\"DSC_0576\"<\/a>Here we had a strange meal of octopus and ink pasta.\u00a0 Wasn’t too happy with the pasta.\u00a0 The color just did not work for me, even though my mouth was happy.\"DSC_0591\"<\/a>This was a typical breakfast.\u00a0 At first they gave us a lot more, but we told them just a light breakfast only.\"DSC_0583\"<\/a>Now a mess of pictures taken from the boat throughout the trip.\"DSC_0548\"<\/a> \"101_8073\"<\/a> \"101_8068\"<\/a> \"101_8067\"<\/a> \"101_8063\"<\/a> \"101_8062\"<\/a> \"101_8061\"<\/a> \"101_8059\"<\/a> \"101_8056\"<\/a> \"101_8051\"<\/a> \"101_8047\"<\/a> \"101_8049\"<\/a> \"20141011_184117\"<\/a> \"20141011_184112\"<\/a> \"20141010_142759\"<\/a>The following are pictures I took one morning when only Zafar, Bieron and I were up.\u00a0 There was a quiet mist floating above the water.\"20141011_073723\"<\/a> \"20141011_073703\"<\/a> \"20141011_073651\"<\/a> \"101_8088\"<\/a>… and as the sun came up.\"101_8106\"<\/a>\"101_8109\"<\/a>\"101_8115\"<\/a>Various pictures throughout.\"DSC_0582\"<\/a> \"101_8073\"<\/a> \"101_8076\"<\/a> \"101_8060\"<\/a> \"101_8051\"<\/a> \"101_8059\"<\/a> \"101_8049\"<\/a> \"101_8048\"<\/a> \"101_8093\"<\/a> \"101_8081\"<\/a> Gokhan’s method of fishing was something I had never seen before.\u00a0 He took a sponge imbedded in a small loaf of bread, wrapped with a string with about a dozen hooks on it.\u00a0 He threw it in the water and just waited.\u00a0 The fish would swarm around it and somehow would end up on the hooks.\u00a0 Or were suppose to.\"101_8082\"<\/a>It was a good trip.\"DSC_0604\"<\/a> \"101_8052\"<\/a>\"DSC_0570\"<\/a>If there are any duplicates in the post, pretend you don’t notice.\u00a0 Until next time, kick butt.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 D.<\/p>\n

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