Kayaking over the sunken city

Today's agenda included sea kayaking over a sunken city. We kayaked to a little cove and heard the history and saw some ruins, then continued over the sunken city. "It's not Atlantis. Don't expect that", our guide told us. We also had to keep moving the entire time. The city has not been touched by archeologists, and it's illegal to snorkel or scuba dive there. So, when the kayak of two Koreans knocked into and flipped over Mel's kayak, and he lost his designer sunglasses, they were goners, maybe to one day be found. The sunken city had a lot of Greek influences (you can see a Greek island from Kas, they apparently have had a lot of influence on each other's architecture and foods, etc) It was destroyed by an earthquake. You can see on the island (that used to be a penninsula) where the buildings, etc were, and then they just ended, and you could see the other parts of those buildings in the waters below you. This was an Lycian City (even though it was a 3 hour bus ride from our previous Lycian trail hiking spot). The litte island that we stopped for at lunch was beautiful and had a castle on the top of the hill that previously was used as a look-out spot.

An old turkish lady trying to sell you things while swimming!

Swimming at some ruins

There was an  America family from California that did a house-swap with a Turkish family (I thought that only happened in the movies...??) The dad had a solo kayak, and the mum and daughter were in one together. American dad (As I took to calling him on this day) was not very coordinated from the start, barely fitting into his kayak, and struggling in and out when he was still on land. You can only imagine him in the water!!! The first time he tipped out, mum and daughter were joking with me, saying they automatically clung togeher from the start, knowing he was going to be bad news, and giggling, and pretending not to know him when the group did have to wait for him to get in and settled again before moving on. He had a good attitude about it, but he eventually did just come back to port in the little tug boat that had been following us around. That was best for us all!!


Coutrney and I lounged after lunch, finding shaded benches and just enjoyed the view before kayaking back to our launch spot, and riding in the big jeep back to town. We then went down to the beach for drinks and lounging in chairs by the beach bar before heading to dinner. After dinner, we went to a bar that Mel had pre-arranged with the owner that they would have sparklers for us. So, there were still some sparkly celebrations after all!!! We then enjoyed a couple drinks on our roof-top veranda before calling it a night.

Shots at Queen Bar

Sparklers for courtney for Independence Day!

It was the 4th of july 'Independence day' so we had to celebrate with courtney so she felt like she was at home!