Moored stern-to in Iasos, there are ruins of a defensive Byzantine tower in the harbour entrance. To enter the harbour, you must keep close to the tower because of the submerged breakwater. Across the larger bay are holiday villages and the commercial port of Güllük.
Today there are just a few sailing boats in the harbour. Q. is visible at right. A fishermen is checking his nets.
Typical local chimney in Iasos. With the shape of a leaf.
Iasos harbour, with restaurant at left. Across the harbour is the ancient city, with not quite so ancient olive trees.
Small boys are fishing. Cows graze among the ruins. Above the Byzantine walls, the Turkish flag flies, giving us an idea of the wind outside in the gulf.
Cows being led home after a day grazing on the hillside among the ruins of Iasos.
Old gnarled olive trees, possibly 400 years old. Inspiration for Tolkien, perhaps.
Ruins in the olive grove.
Next to Quicksilver is Spellbinder. Henry, a former (UK) nuclear submarine engineer, has taken her from the Baltic, across the Atlantic and back. Joining as crew was Eric, another former submariner.
Thistle
Fortifications at Iasos
Looking out at Güllük Körfezi, where the wind is still blowing.
Climbing up to the Acropolis, where Byzantine walls surround a site used in Greek and Roman times.
The upper walls are Byzantine, the lower ones are older.
Bill on ancient arch.
Caper plant
Scrap of mosaic in ruined building near top of hill.
Old and new. Ruins from classical times with holiday villages behind.
Re-use of building materials!
Cow stretching, goat-like, to eat olive leaves.
Looking down on Quicksilver and Spellbinder from the acropolis.
Looking down on the lower ruins at Iasos, mainly Greek, with evidence of Bronze Age settlement.
These big rough-hewn blocks caught my eye.
Walls at the lower site at Iasos.
The site has temples, commercial, legislative, and residential spaces.
The bouleterion, a legislative chamber.
Looking up from the bouleterion to the acropolis.
A variety of basil that is put on restaurant tables. The idea is that you can rub your hands in it.
Yellow flower at Iasos. Identification welcome.
Looking down on the bouleterion.
Bouleterion with hills and minaret behind
Jack-in-the-pulpit at Iasos.
Pink and silver thistle at Iasos.
Colonnade at Iasos.
Colonnade and thistles at Iasos.
Blue thistle and yellow thistle at Iasos.
Caper blossoms and fruit at Iasos
Donkey and pomegranate tree.
Pomegranate tree
Museum at Iasos. In an Roman mausoleum, later used as a fish market.
The center of the mausoleum quadrangle was somewhat overgrown. Perhaps it would be mowed when the season really began.
Artefacts from Iasos are in the British Museum among others.
One of the many inscriptions that reveal the history of Iasos and its trading partners..
Column in museum at Iasos
Plaque at Iasos museum
Sarcophagi at Iasos museum
Boys asked if they could play in our dinghy.
Fisherman mending his nets. Notice the garlic and dried peppers hanging from his awning.
Leaving Iasos.
Ruin of Byzantine tower at entrance to Iasos.
