water water

This morning, around 11am,  a group of us neighbour friends went to Yali restaurant on the shore of Lake Bafa to have a leisurely and always delicious traditional Turkish breakfast.  This included tomatoes, cucumber, olives, several different cheeses, fried eggs, scrambled eggs with tomatoes and pepper (menemen), cheese pastries, chips, soft fresh bread, honey, butter and jam + tea to drink, and took quite a while to get through, but I am happy to write that we were mostly successful, although it became a bit of a struggle towards the end.  Thus weighted down we all returned home early afternoon and spent time trying to float in the pool. By late afternoon we abandoned that plan and sat together by the pool's edge, chatting for a couple of hours until early evening. Alcohol may have been involved. 

What was left of the evening passed quietly - more quietly than I planned as for the first time in several months, I turned on the TV - and it didn't work. Hey ho. 

Lake Bafa is situated in southwestern Turkey,The lake used to be a gulf of the Aegean Sea until the Classical period, when the sea passage was gradually closed by the alluvial mass brought by Büyük Menderes River (historically the Maeander or Meander River).  Lake Bafa is one of the important bird sanctuaries in Turkey. The west coast overlooking the Balat Plain of Lake Bafa is a shallow area where migratory birds stay and breed in autumn and spring. Lake Bafa was declared a nature reserve in 1994.  The changing chemical content and decreasing oxygen amount with the reduction and pollution of the river waters pouring into the lake ....  .... the disconnecting of the Büyük Menderes river from the lake, and the fact that the waste of olive oil factories built around the lake continued to be poured into the lake without treatment, has (irreversibly) distorted the natural habitat. (Wikipedia)