fh_trips | Bedri Rahmi Bay, Turkey [Evening]

After the opportunity to swim and plenty of time to relax in Manastir Bay, the gulets sail towards Bedri Rahmi Bay and anchor for the night. There's time to explore the bay, named for Turkish writer and artist Bedri Rahmi Eyüpoglu, one of the first to experience a ‘Blue Cruise’ back in 1973. He painted a picture of a fish on a boulder behind the fountain here on his first journey that can still be seen but shouldn't be taken as encouragement to also paint on the boulders.

There is a freshwater fountain under some immense pine trees at the northeast end of this wide bay, where a restaurant and a pier are also located. Behind the fish painting is a Lycian rock tomb seeming to lurk among the trees. In addition to this tomb, there are numerous Lycian pigeon-hole tombs carved into the face of a large rock, a rock tomb with an embroidered gate, and three tombs lying next to each other further on ahead. These rock tombs, which look like the ones in Kaunos, belong to the ancient city of Crya located further up on the hill.

Explore the ruins if you'd like, but get back before sunset or the sprained ankle you might get climbing down those rocks will be no one's fault but yours!

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When playing in the gulet (http://www.seafarercruises.com/Cruises/Gulet/MarmarisFethiye/vesseldetails.html) threads, please note which gulet (https://docs.google.com/document/d/10yh6hDB-CAhDvvWU56dElQcjtjIWNg5rQMbpBKC4epE/edit) you're in so your boatmates may join you!

Either with double beds (http//www.seafarercruises.com/Cruises/Gulet/MarmarisFethiye/vesseldetails.html) or two twins (http://www.seafarercruises.com/images/CruiseTypes/Gulet/Turkey/GocekMarmaris/large/cabin-twin.jpg), all rooms have a window or porthole, ensuite facilities with shower, a music system and TV, and air conditioning. Please move your conversation to private journals if your thread is going NWS.

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For all your sunning, lounging, and sea-air needs!

[[Please edit the thread title as needed to indicate which sun deck (http://www.seafarercruises.com/images/CruiseTypes/Gulet/Turkey/MarmarisFethiye/home1.jpg) you're on.]

All meals aboard ship (and your sunset drinks) are served in the dining room and saloon (http://www.seafarercruises.com/images/CruiseTypes/Gulet/Turkey/GocekMarmaris/vessel-home1.jpg) on the main deck of your gulet. If you don't feel like hiking down the beach to the restaurant at the end of the cove, you can get dinner here!

It's still going to be Turkish food, though. Sorry, Topher.

[OOC: You know the drill! Gulet name in the headline]

If you'd like to keep things even cosier, each gulet has an additional saloon (http://www.seafarercruises.com/images/CruiseTypes/Gulet/Turkey/GocekMarmaris/vessel-home2.jpg) below decks, perfect for chatting with friends, grabbing a drink, or reading a book.

[OOC: Mark where you are!]

The restaurant at the edge of the cove specializes in Turkish seafood dishes, freshly made pides, and baklava that the restaurant owner's mother-in-law makes herself.

And no, she won't give him the recipe. He's begged.

Have you had enough ruins yet today? No? How about another hike, then? Mind your step!

Look at the fish painting! DON'T PAINT IT OVER. CADE.

The moon isn't out, there's no civilization for kilometers, and when the gulets turn their lights out, there are roughly nine hundred zillion (technical term) stars in the sky.

See some constellations that you know! Make up ones you don't! And when you're done looking, the crews will set up some bonfires for roasting sausages and marshmallows and try to lead in you in a singalong of traditional Turkish songs.

So...good luck with that last part.

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Sweet tapdancing Jesus, Firefox, STOP CRASHING ON ME.

Tomorrow we set sail for Tesane Island and then the town of Gocek!

And sing out here if you're switching gulets.

Was there such a thing as too many ruins? The sheer volume of photographs George had taken on his phone would suggest he thought not.

Or, not when they were like these, he'd decided. He'd never seen anything quite like this in the Weird, though he was told there were such places outside of Adrianglia. If he were able to get them print he could send some to Jack and make him wish he'd been the one shipped away for school.

Natalie didn't care for sausages or s'mores, and definitely not singalongs, so she was probably going to retreat back to her gulet and her cabin once it was that time.

But for now, she was watching the sky in silence.

Peter had actually made it off the gulet, which was novel in its own right. Not really because he wanted to take in the atmosphere, though - or even the food.

Bean was still bitching at him over the stupid files that he couldn't release until the time was right, jesus, that wasn't so hard to understand, and if he didn't leave the cabin he was very much in danger of chucking his laptop and/or his phone at one of the walls, and that would be terrible.

So instead he was sitting by this fire with his phone in his hand, writing and deleting a series of extremely insulting emails.

His and Bean's was a special relationship.

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"I'd say something about this being predictable, but that would be predictable all on its own."

Because she'd already said that on some other vacation when finding him glued to his phone or his laptop, she was sure.

"We're both creatures of habit," Peter said, not bothering to lift his gaze. "Woe betide us."

Alec wasn't really a beach person, or a stargazer. Or really a person who tended to eat a lot of s'mores. But given the circumstances of his room assignment, he was doing his best to stay off the boat as much as possible.

He was just going to ignore the fact that Natalie was here as well, because he'd already gone to the trouble of coming out here and he might as well enjoy it for like ten minutes.

Without eating any s'mores, though. That would just be getting crazy.

Stiles was a sucker for stargazing, though he wasn't exactly used to doing it sober these days. Whelp, that's an issue that could be cleared up soon enough, he had a backpack and it was ridiculously easy to get booze in Turkey. ~~Wikipedia said so~~

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