Poyraz: Hasan Paşa Gözetleme Kulesi (the main fort)
Poyraz: Hasan Paşa Gözetleme Kulesi (the main fort) - showing the recently collapsed arch
Poyraz: Hasan Paşa Gözetleme Kulesi (the main fort)
Poyraz: Hasan Paşa Gözetleme Kulesi (the main fort) - wild rose hips (I think)
Poyraz: Hasan Paşa Gözetleme Kulesi (the main fort) - looking towards the Black Sea
Poyraz: Hasan Paşa Gözetleme Kulesi (the main fort)
Poyraz: a wee selfie
Poyraz: the former Nato fortifications - unofficial entrance
Poyraz: old fortification
Poyraz: the former Nato fortifications - sealed-off entrance to the underground fortifications
Poyraz: old entrance to underground fortifications
Poyraz: old entrance to underground fortifications
Poyraz: plane tree and orange berries
Poyraz: Ottoman fountain and presumably a former fish-selling stall
Poyraz: murals showing how the fountain and fort looked in the fairly recent past
between Poyraz and the motorway: old cobbled track
between Poyraz and the motorway: old cobbled track - partly ruined recently by someone laying a pipe and then not replacing the cobbles
between Poyraz and the motorway: wild land
between Poyraz and the motorway: view across Poyraz harbour towards Rumeli Feneri
heading under the motorway: our 2 day-dogs lead the way
between the motorway and the first deep stream valley: destroyed military structure
between the motorway and the first deep stream valley: destroyed military structure
between the motorway and the first deep stream valley: Brownie
between the motorway and the first deep stream valley: destroyed military structure
between the motorway and the first deep stream valley: jungly pine woodland
between the motorway and the first deep stream valley: Brownie inspects a ruined or destroyed building
between the motorway and the first deep stream valley: ruined or destroyed building
between the motorway and the first deep stream valley: red smilax berries (smilax is a plant with nutritional and medicinal benefits but when hiking through forest we would be much happier without it...)
between the motorway and the first deep stream valley: (magic?) mushrooms
between the motorway and the first deep stream valley: glade
between the motorway and the first deep stream valley: woodland can be slowly violent
between the motorway and the first deep stream valley: ivy-covered dead tree
between the motorway and the first deep stream valley: ivy-covered dead tree
between the motorway and the first deep stream valley: older tree
the first deep stream valley: Brownie and Blackie are happy
the first deep stream valley: small waterfall
the first deep stream valley: shiny brown fungi
the first deep stream valley: translucent yellow fungi
the first deep stream valley: making our way
the first deep stream valley: vibrant forest
the first deep stream valley: dense forest
between deep stream valleys: old tree
between deep stream valleys: bracken revisited
between deep stream valleys: white mushroom
between deep stream valleys: red smilax berries
between deep stream valleys: very early catkins
between deep stream valleys: Blackie and Brownie
between deep stream valleys: deep forest
between deep stream valleys: deep forest
the second deep stream valley: deep forest
the second deep stream valley: arch of older trees
the second deep stream valley: wet way
the second deep stream valley: delicate white fungi
the second deep stream valley: delicate white fungi
the second deep stream valley: delicate white fungi
the second deep stream valley: wet way
the second deep stream valley: wet way
the second deep stream valley: fern
the second deep stream valley: small waterfall
the second deep stream valley: jagged tree
the second deep stream valley: small waterfall
the second deep stream valley: leaf berry (what's the name of this plant?)
the second deep stream valley: determined Blackie
the second deep stream valley: small waterfall
the second deep stream valley: Blackie surveys the forest
the second deep stream valley: whitish toadstool
between the second deep stream valley & Yoros castle: a stretch of easy track; Brownie and Blackie still full of beans
between the second deep stream valley & Yoros castle: gorse in premature flower
between the second deep stream valley & Yoros castle: on track
between the second deep stream valley & Yoros castle: fungi
between the second deep stream valley & Yoros castle: group texting session; Blackie is sad not to have a phone of his own
southeast of Yoros castle: Maslak towers over the Bosphrous at sunset
southeast of Yoros castle: Maslak towers over the Bosphrous at sunset
southeast of Yoros castle: Maslak towers over the Bosphrous at sunset
southeast of Yoros castle: Maslak towers over the Bosphrous at sunset
southeast of Yoros castle: Maslak dissolves into the sunset
Yoros castle: by night
Anadolu Kavaǧı: Brownie left us at the terraced cafés just after Yoros castle; Blackie stayed with us till the end; we say a sad farewell
