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About Me
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Yes, that is Gemiler bay. This photo was taken from the top of Gemiler Island, which I showed on my front page and which I promised to tell you more about later. Hello friends,My real name is Achmet but everone calls me Robinson. I suppose the reason is that I have lived a bit like Robinson Crusoe for most of my life. I do not live on an island but on a beach in Turkey. It can now be reached by road, but when I first came here about 45 years ago it could only be reached by sea or a steep mountain track. At that time I lived here alone in a small wooden hut and worked hard for many years, to make it a nice and peaceful resting place - planting and watering all kinds of fruit- and olive-trees. We
now have tourists visit us, but for half the year it is still a very
quiet and peaceful place. I forgot to mention that it is also very
beautiful. I have many friends who visit me from nearby Kaya or Fethiye
and we have a lot of fun in my restaurant on the beach. First
of all "Gemiler Achmet", he is a good friend and runs the
watersports around here, including the "Banana Boat". Not
that this quiet bay is spoiled by such activities, they take place well
off-shore and appeal mainly to the day-trip boats. About Gemiler Island Gemiler
Island, also known as St Nicholas Island is very interesting and worth
a visit. In Byzantine times it had a population of around 2000 people
and though it was probably not a declared monastry there is no doubt
that Christianity was very important to the people of there and the
nearby mainland. There are remains of 3 large churches and several chapels.
There was no well or spring water and rain was collected off all the
roofs [including the church roofs] and stored in water tanks. Most tanks
were 5 to 10 ton in capacity but there remains a large tank of about
1500 ton capacity. Write me an E-Mail via a friend Mail me here and I will recieve it within some days or so. |
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My
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introduce you to some of my friends