Day 21 - Kas to Karadere

A pleasant days walk in overcast conditions, which knock the temperature back from high twenties to low twenties.  I hate overcast days at home, but they are great for walking in Turkey.  Most of the day is along a remote wind swept coast.  In one of the bays below, a Bronze Age ship wreck was discovered in 1982.  It was excavated over the following 12 years; proving that in 1800BC there were people moving copper, tin, glass, ostrich eggs, ivory, ebony and amber around the Mediterranean.  Amazing.

We have dinner at a remote, and rather expensive, cafe; then push on for another hour before finding a lovely campsite above the sea.  The only downside is that it is packed with insects.  We are normally very proficient at keeping insects out of our tent, but the ones that we encounter here just swarm our clothing and hair.  Inside the tent I find 15 of them have come inside with me.  Fortunately they are rather docile and very easy to swat.  As I whack another three, l ask myself how such a defenseless organism ever survived the evolutionary process.  Five minutes later, half of the answer becomes obvious, they just won't stay dead.  I've practically got to dismember them to prevent them from popping back to life.  It is completely disgusting.  The second half of the answer is even more disgusting.  I wake up in the middle of the night covered in blisters, on every part of my skin that contacted one of these things.  So they are amazingly resilient and secrete something toxic.  Evolution is a wonderful thing. 

Camp Le Freak - idyllic except for...

The blisters caused by the toxin secreting insects

Today's tortoise count : 0