Bike and waterfall

There is a sunny day, I ride with my bike along to the river near Gölcük and see and hear of sounds of waterfalls which has big amount of sping water coming from Samanlı mountains.

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Escape

Photo captured a park in Gölcük city.

Old Bridge

There is a small stream near Gölcük city; you can across it with two concrete bridge. I incidentally explore an old wooden suspension bridge yesterday, nearly broken due to unused, silent, deserted and lonely.

Dance of the seagulls

I shot it by the gulf of İzmit in noon time, as if dancer of the sky.

Watchrepair's shop

Uncle Mikail's shop has a lot of old clocks in its shopwindow. He does his repair-work skillfully. You can find some different clocks in the shop where old and new ones are together. He was not there- sunday holiday!

Earthquake, don't forget !

We had lived the very big Earthquake (Magnitude 7.4 ) in 1999 in Gölcük. We lost many lives. 10 years past.
Don't forget ;'' Earthqueke do not kill, wrong constructed buildings kill us.''

Saraylı Village

Saraylı is one of the biggest villages of Gölcük and owner of the remains from Roman era. The village is also very rich for the work of arts from Ottoman era. The documents showed that the first settler of the region were from “Yuruk Clan.” The houses which have a typical architecture and the tombstones with epitaphs are outstanding. The very old plane tree in the center of the village´s market, is a witness of those rested under its shadow and reminds the past to the visitors.

Lamp post in the sea.

This lamp post was ligthing near the seaside street before the big earthquake at 1999. When the quake was occured some land went down to the sea. Now It looks like a statue which is reminded earthquake to us.

Submarine

This submarine comes out to the surface, from grassy earth not sea!

Ship Museum

Ship museum called Yarhisar is located in the Gölcük town. She is at the land not sea!

Gölcük has a navy base of Turkey. There was occured a big (magnitude:7.4) earthquake in 1999. Many people died in this terrific earthquake. Gölcük goes over to the south of the gulf of İzmit. Please go to my another blog Yaşam Yolum to see more photo about the ship and her contents.