{"id":2395,"date":"2014-09-25T10:05:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T09:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2014-09-27T13:33:53","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T12:33:53","slug":"a-photo-gallery-of-the-turkish-turquoise-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2395","title":{"rendered":"A photo gallery of the Turkish Turquoise Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>M is a very unusual Super Yacht. \u00a0It has an inverted bow, which makes it look like one half of a large catamaran. Google it to see the bow, what would an inverted bow add to performance?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2407\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2407\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070451-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2407\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070451-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;M&quot; with inverted Bow\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070451-640x480.jpg 640w, http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070451-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070451-640x480-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;M&#8221; with inverted Bow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2397\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2397\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070442-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2397\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070442-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Why are we sleeping on the bow?\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070442-640x480.jpg 640w, http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070442-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070442-640x480-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2397\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why are we sleeping on the bow?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Early this morning in Fethiye, James and I are saying, &#8221; Is that Frosty snoring?&#8221; No, Frosty doesn&#8217;t snore. It was a man sleeping in the cockpit on the boat next door and here are where his fellow crew members were forced to sleep: on the bow, where the noise of the traffic might drown out the constant but sonorous snoring from their friend.<\/p>\n<p>I said I understood their reasoning for sleeping on the bow and they burst out laughing, These lovely Russian ladies are part of a flotilla of five and usually sail on dinghies at home. They said Mr Snorer was a lovely guy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070310-640x4801.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2398\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070310-640x4801.jpg\" alt=\"cozy kitten, Kalcan, Turkey\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070310-640x4801.jpg 640w, http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070310-640x4801-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070310-640x4801-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that I have shown two boat photos, I am allowed one kitten shot. This gorgeous little fellow had found a perfect spot and the shop owner was happy because everyone stopped to look at her lovely wares. Kalkan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2401\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2401\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070438-640x473.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2401\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070438-640x473.jpg\" alt=\"James, Louise and the adorable Frosty at Hotel Unique\" width=\"640\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070438-640x473.jpg 640w, http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070438-640x473-300x221.jpg 300w, http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070438-640x473-405x300.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2401\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James, Louise and the adorable Frosty at Hotel Unique<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2402\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070370-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2402\" src=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070370-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Goat Pruning\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070370-640x480.jpg 640w, http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070370-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/merrington.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/P1070370-640x480-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goat Pruning<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The four of us were admiring this very well pruned olive grove, saying someone takes great pride in the pruning. Later in the morning, we saw a large herd of goats come down and they all stood on their hind legs to get their breakfast. \u00a0Goats can stand on two legs for quite a while.<\/p>\n<p>Having fun here, off to an anchorage tonight.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; M is a very unusual Super Yacht. \u00a0It has an inverted bow, which makes it look like one half of a large catamaran. Google it to see the bow, what would an inverted bow add to performance? Early this morning in Fethiye, James and I are saying, &#8221; Is that Frosty snoring?&#8221; No, Frosty &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/merrington.net\/?p=2395\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A photo gallery of the Turkish Turquoise Coast<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,48,22,6,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures-2","category-antiquities","category-friendship","category-travel","category-turkey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VxXq-CD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/merrington.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}