Mescid-i Selam bus stop: 4 dogs waiting for a bus but never getting on
Yeniköy tea-house: the jovial manager
Yeniköy: old man with a walking-stick
Yeniköy: wheeling the churn
Yeniköy: overlooking the Black Sea and an active mine
Yeniköy: a bunker
Yeniköy: yellow flowers, a blue sky and a mobile-phone mast
Yeniköy: walking down from the village to the Black Sea
Yeniköy: anemones (?) & buttercups
Yeniköy: a field of yellow flowers
Yeniköy: a group of 3 on the scruffy Black Sea beach
Yeniköy: gendarme van
Yeniköy: Serkan Taycan and the Between Two Seas project
Yeniköy: Serkan displays the Between Two Seas map
Yeniköy: heading across the scruff beach towards the abandoned mines; Karabunun in the background
Yeniköy: the entrance to the active mineworkings
Yeniköy: mining equipment in an active area of the mines
Yeniköy: gendarme van by the entrance of the abandoned part of the opencast mines
Yeniköy - in the abandoned part of the opencast mines: a bunker
Yeniköy - in the abandoned part of the opencast mines: a road to nowhere
Yeniköy - in the abandoned part of the opencast mines: cows in a small meadow
Yeniköy - in the abandoned part of the opencast mines: looking north to the airport
Yeniköy: Istanbul Airport (phase 1...) where once there were abandoned opencast mine-workings
Yeniköy: water-buffalo by the big pond on the west of what's left of the abandoned opencast mine-workings (now the NE corner of Istanbul Airport); this pond is now the source of the Sazlıdere we follow west to Terkos
Yeniköy - in the abandoned part of the opencast mines: buffalo walking by the big pond with a cowherd
Yeniköy - in the abandoned part of the opencast mines: on the edge of the big pond with the gendarmes
Yeniköy - in the abandoned part of the opencast mines: a buffalo wallowoing by the big pond
Yeniköy - in the abandoned part of the opencast mines: coming down the side of the big pond
Yeniköy - in the abandoned part of the opencast mines: coming down the side of the big pond
Yeniköy - in the abandoned part of the opencast mines: old quarry face by the side of the big pond
Yeniköy - in the abandoned part of the opencast mines: 2 buffalo by the big pond
Yeniköy - in the abandoned part of the opencast mines: buffalo by the big pond
Yeniköy - in the abandoned part of the opencast mines: buffalo by the big pond
Yeniköy: water-buffalo standing by the big pond on the west of what's left of the abandoned opencast mine-workings
Yeniköy - in the abandoned part of the opencast mines: a buffalo in the big pond
Yeniköy - in the abandoned part of the opencast mines: buffalo by the big pond
Yeniköy - in the abandoned part of the opencast mines: the big pond
between Yeniköy and Durusu: clover & buttercups
between Yeniköy and Durusu: walking over a flower meadow
in the begninning of the shallow valley between Yeniköy and Terkos: a grey heron
between Yeniköy and Durusu: buffalo in a flower meadow
between Yeniköy and Durusu: a buffalo in a flower meadow
between Yeniköy and Durusu: flower meadow
between Yeniköy and Durusu: buffalo in a flower meadow
between Yeniköy and Durusu: furze in flower
between Yeniköy and Durusu: flower meadow
between Yeniköy and Durusu: flower meadow & trees
between Yeniköy and Durusu: greening trees in a flower meadow
between Yeniköy and Durusu: flower meadow and greeing woodland
between Yeniköy and Durusu: blue flowers
between Yeniköy and Durusu: flower meadow and greeing woodland
the first Sazlıdere flower meadow: a plane leaving Istanbul Airport flies over spring woodland
between Yeniköy and Durusu: flower meadow and greeing woodland
between Yeniköy and Durusu: flower meadow and greeing woodland
the first Sazlıdere flower meadow: loddon lilies
between Yeniköy and Durusu: purple orchids (I think) in a flower meadow
the first Sazlıdere flower meadow: a solitary tree in spring
the first Sazlıdere flower meadow: a row of trees coming into leaf
between Yeniköy and Durusu: flower meadow and light woodland
the first Sazlıdere flower meadow: crossing the Sazlıdere by a pipe-bridge
between Yeniköy and Durusu: flower meadow and light woodland
between Yeniköy and Durusu: furze in flower
between Yeniköy and Terkos: a common yellow swallowtail butterfly on a track
between Yeniköy and Durusu: pink, yellow and blue flowers
between Yeniköy and Durusu: a swampy area connected to Durugöl
between Yeniköy and Durusu: a sleepy dog
between Yeniköy and Durusu: Durugöl
between Yeniköy and Durusu: a small flock of long-eared goats (or are they sheep?)
between Yeniköy and Durusu: Durugöl
Terkos: the Terkos reservoir causeway just north of the small town of Terkos
between Yeniköy and Durusu: Durugöl
Terkos: a view over Terkos reservoir
between Yeniköy and Durusu: a field of yellow flowers against a blue sky
Durusu: the saint's mosque
Durusu: the old fountain
Durusu: the old brickworks (?) chimney
Durusu: the waterworks entrance
between Terkos and Boyalık: trees in blossom
between Durusu and Boyalık: an orange & black butterfly
between Terkos and Boyalık: stars-of-Bethlehem (a garden escapee I think)
between Durusu and Boyalık: blossoming light woodloand
between Durusu and Boyalık: Istanbul Airport has parallel flightpaths; these planes seem surprisingly close to each other
Boyalık: tea house
Boyalık: tea house
Boyalık: a cockerel giving us the eye
Boyalık: guard-dog
between Boyalık and Baklalı: rolling farmland, with Boyalık in the background
between Boyalık and Baklalı: heading east along a country road
between Boyalık and Baklalı: a country road
between Boyalık and Baklalı: coming down a meadow under the evening sky
between Boyalık and Baklalı: evening sky
Baklalı: the mosque
Baklalı: evening skyscape
between Baklalı and Germe: rolling farmland
between Baklalı and Germe: tree in yellow blossom (what tree?)
between Baklalı and Germe: rolling farmland with blocks in the background
between Baklalı and Germe: a field of yellow flowers with greening trees behind
between Baklalı and Germe: white flowers (a garden escapee)
between Baklalı and Germe: orange poppies (garden escapees)
Germe: this bus ain't going anywhere soon
Germe: this bus ain't going anywhere soon
