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it is around about the 21st of february

so technically still winter but it is so

warm here today i've got shorts and a

t-shirt on

and even with that snow on the mountains

in the background it really does feel

like spring is happening

and that's that's a good feeling for

sure

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and there's abc park right there

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on our walk through finicky we're

actually on the hunt for

a multi-sized sd card reader

this is a usb 1 so the speed is woefully

woefully slow i'm really looking for a

usb

3 speed sd card reader which is called

into this shop here

and the guy showed us one for the um

micro sd

cards which will do the job however um

he doesn't have one that does the big sd

card which one of our cameras uses

and the thing is he's just gone okay

just

hang on a second and he's wandered off

down the street to

talk to another shopkeeper presumably

but left us here with his shop

and she was just saying that you know

somewhere else in the world in

particular where we

were used to used to live when we were

kids um

they'd never leave you in the shop

because they come back to an empty shop

but here in turkey yeah just stay here

look after my shop i'm going somewhere

else it's great it's really great it's

really good

that still exists you know that yeah

yeah that's really

nice another bonus from turkey really

isn't it

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in finnick8 there are a couple of creeks

that run out into the sea

and as we go into the back streets of

finla k town itself

we can see that they've actually tamed

the creek

and it runs out through this little

canal system

and every now and then they have these

little bridges that are very popular for

people making shortcuts

either on foot or by scooter into their

residential areas

reminds me of that song running bear

it reminds me of that song running bear

no it's about an indian never mind

okay

yeah the lyrics were something like um

on the other side of the river stood

running there

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there's a hungry bear needs feeding

a symbol synonymous with turkey is of

course the

whirling dervish we've just come across

this

statue of a whirling dervish hopefully

next time we're in istanbul we might

take a look see if we can see

some whirling dervishes in action now

then our mate kev

who's been up and down this road a few

times reckons that this place over

here class past tenessie

is the place in town infinicay to buy

cakes we're gonna find out

we're not driving a jag

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got this in the cake shop look at you

i can get the beer

thoughts about finicky so far it's it's

a tourist town

it's definitely not a tourist town it's

definitely a work in town it's

quite disjointed there's no central area

for

you know you go here if you're shopping

you go here if you're eating

uh you know everything seems to be

spread around there are a couple of

little squares

but everything seems to be sort of like

just spread around and you've really got

to do

some walking around the back streets uh

to discover little places where you go

oh look there's a hardware store oh look

at several hardware stores

there is an area where they sell um meat

and fish

in different shops again that's a little

square area

and that's near some places where they

make

you know p day and food to take away

there's

there are sort of two or three roads

that are parallel to each other

on the other side of the main road and

the one at the back has got lots of

tool shops for farming

equipment and the people that work

around here and then

you know you come further and you've got

a variety of other shops so if you come

to finicky

you've got to get on your feet go and

explore

if you want to find anything you've got

to go and explore it's not laid out

on a plate and handed to you yeah and

just while we're talking about

um places around finnick i must say the

topiary how they've done the trees and

the little bushes around the town hall

it's really pretty they put a lot of

effort into it just a funny little thing

we're gonna go and walk up here and show

you

this camera won't pick it up but there's

a bloke who's got six or seven

uh sticks planted into the sand just in

the shallow water

off the uh off the beach and he

blows up balloons and hangs them from

string between the sticks and then

he charges people to use like i think

it's a 177 or a 0.22

air rifle to shoot the balloons and win

prizes now

i think it's you know very

entrepreneurial of him

to do that he wouldn't want to swim

around the area though but

the thing that gets my goat is he's got

rubber balloons that are getting blown

up

and dropped into the bloody water

yeah anyway i'll show you i'll show you

what he's got set up so this is the

shooting gallery so to speak those are

the balloons he's got set up i've

noticed as he's putting the balloons out

he actually dips a little bit of sea

water in to give them a bit of weight in

the bottom of the balloon so they don't

blow around too much in the breeze

um and then he ties them up onto the

string

and people shoot them entrepreneurial

but kind of

this is the outside wall of the marina

and that is the entrance to the marina

and just a bit of a panoramic view

across the bay

which is nice and flat and calm today

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just between the palm trees there you

can see the migraine supermarket sign so

it's literally

across the road coming into the entrance

of the marina

and bob's your uncle there's pontoon sea

where we're on

that's how far you have to go to get

your shopping what have you got you

doritos oh yeah you're doritos

some uh upgrades happening here

and we're making it really pretty we

walked along there last night and

it's really quite nice we might film

that for you later on

but yeah it looks great getting that all

ready for summer

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we have almost a passerella of doom it

depends on how high or low the tide is

and yes there is a tide in turkey even

if it's a little tide

yeah it's quite significant when you're

trying to go up and down that passage

i just got back to abc i took a little

hike back into town

to the shop where the guy said he was

going to get us an sd card reader

he'd been to antalya today which is a

little bit further along the coast

and he said he scoured everywhere and

finally came up with the goods

now i haven't had a chance to have a

close look at this but i'll dig it out

of my backpack

and we'll take a look okay so

so this is it it looks very similar to

the one we've got although the package

does say usb

2. so i'm hoping this one's going to be

a little bit faster than the one we've

got

it was 60 turkish lira which is

just under 11 aussie dollars he did a

good job getting that

so we'll give it a go you can't see

where we're going yet but you'll see

when we get there

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and i believe that's just half of it

there's more walking when you get to the

top

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that's true almost halfway up there's

this little

bench provided by the local council

i guess uh some people need a little bit

of a rest on the way up

a bit further up they've got a cpr

machine

looking out past the marina breakwall

looks like we might be getting a bit of

wind out there

might be able to get the sails up when

we go out

this is a new mosque that's been built

um one of the local businessmen financed

it

apparently it's not open yet but it does

have pretty much everything you would

expect

um including a school for the local kids

and uh it's wonderfully lit up at night

a bit of a climb up that hill

just here we can see the little seats in

front of the

water taps where worshipers will cleanse

and wash themselves

before entering the mosque

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and this is the main entrance

into the mosque as i said it's not open

at the moment

so we're not disturbing anybody by

wandering around here but

it's been beautifully constructed from

the edge of the roof we can see there's

a chain hanging down here from

what is technically a gutter and the

chain is just to

direct the water when it rains to run

smoothly down the chain instead of

splashing the side of the building and

potentially

staining it a great overhead view of

finnegan arena

some fishing boats along there coast

guard boat

and moving over towards the hard stand

area and then looking

out across finicky itself this camera's

not going to pick it up really well but

we can see that there's a

fish farm here a fish farm here a fish

farm there

these are working fish farms and the

boats that taxi the

court fish backwards and forwards are in

and out of the harbour all day

and way across there on the horizon is

the silhouette

of a navy ship so they are still

patrolling this area

we had wanted to fly the drone over the

marina and

bits and pieces of finicky but

unfortunately we were told that the zone

is a red zone and so drone flying is

definitely a no-no

so we've done the best we can by

climbing as high as we can and getting

these shots for you yeah

it's super fit while we did it we did

super out of breath

so that concludes our time in phoenix

we're just about to head back to the

boat

and uh make her ready to leave the

marina it's been great

we've met a lot of good people yeah and

uh we'll see them up and down the coast

throughout this sailing season

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it's now monday morning and we've been

in finnegan arena for

nearly a week now but it's time for us

to head back to

the cache area on the way we're going to

stop at keck over at smuggler's cove and

drop

anchor there for the night but right now

i'm going to head into the marina office

and just let them know that we're

leaving today and just sign off

and return our key card

not even done my makeup or hair or

anything yet but i'm making sandwiches

because we're going out in the car for a

whole day

and we're going exploring and i thought

we'd get hungry so yeah well the

restaurants

might be closed so there might be

nowhere to

have lunch so meat veggies

mayo mustard fruit

right better get my going on okay

and get a few things organized all right

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well bass as you know as the driver

we are on our way to an ancient

lysine site called telos

i think that's how you pronounce it yeah

and it's

up in the hills and they're actually

right at the top

of the uh hill range that i'm looking at

they're covered in snow

because it is winter it's actually

really cool

um just driving through the little

country villages isn't it yeah you're

definitely sort of like off the beaten

track now this is um

this is far from tourist town

anyway here's a bit more of what we're

seeing

oh wow

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he's open that's good

it's so quiet

apparently according to hittite texts

this

lysine settlement dates back

as early as the 15th century bc

in the late bronze age how awesome is

that

it's pretty old it's older than you guys

it is that's saying something

so the large open flat space to the east

foot of the acropolis hill

served as the stadium area the

spectators were able to view the races

from the seats cut into the natural

bedrock

nine rows of seats and a parapet are the

most important features

up at this elevation we can see the

stadium area

and beyond that there is the

amphitheater

and they've got an awful lot of bits of

stone

all laid out meticulously somebody's

documented those and numbered them

this wall here we can definitely see is

falling down at some point and being

rebuilt with whatever was lying around

because obviously these are

the round ones are columns um

we can see some pieces up there that

just don't fit it with the rest of the

stone so it's interesting

how they go about their reconstruction

wow look at the thickness of this wall

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just amazing the amount of detail that

they've gone to

putting these facades together the last

occupation of

this acropolis hill dates back to the

19th century

reusing stones from ancient monuments of

the acropolis hill and i think that's

what we're looking at there

but 19th century yeah now

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turkey is of course a land that's prone

to earthquakes

and there was a very well documented

devastating one

in 141 a.d and then

in 240 a.d there was a second big

earthquake that was

worthy of making note and a lot of the

ruins here

were devastated by both of those

earthquakes so

a lot of rebuilding has had to go on

basically

simply because stuff happens

this looks like stood the test of time

although those top bits there don't

match up correctly so who knows

it's a place that just keeps giving

every time you come around a corner

you're met with something else to go

that looks interesting so what we're

looking at here is

something called the great bath and

basically they

had a cold room with a cold pool

then they had a warm room with a warm

pool and they had

a hot room with a hot pool and

this is um the

windows that we can see they're looking

down to the valley

simply there for a nice view

and they also had a little pull just in

front of the windows as well that you

could

put your feet in so this has been around

for quite some time

they think it's around the second or

third century

ad so you can see

the size of that rock with andrew used

for scale

and they're pretty much all around about

the same size

but how did they manage to build that up

there

if you notice those stones there they've

each got

a little indentation in them that's been

carved in

what was that for there's lots of them

just strolling up the road towards the

amphitheater and

um it is absolutely wrecked

it's probably probably the least

well preserved one we've seen so far so

it's amazing what

the power of an earthquake can do

as we left to lost there was a lady with

a

roadside stall and she's made these

little lace mats or doilies

and it's so fine i just had to get one

isn't it beautiful and that

was 30 lira turkish lira which works out

to about

six aussie dollars for that work look

how fine that is

turned out to be pretty amazing sight

didn't it

yeah it's just a shame that it's been

rebuilt so many times

obviously you've got to rebuild if

things get knocked down and you're

living there

so it's very difficult to tell which

bits are which bits

for what area so what's lysine what's

byzantine yeah what's wrong

yeah yeah yeah great site over one it's

a really large place wasn't it yeah

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