Antalya is a large beach city on the Mediterranean coast and a popular vacation spot for Europeans. We stayed inside the walls of the old city that is right on the harbor. We didn’t want to leave without giving the kids a chance to swim in the fabulously warm water (on of my favorite memories from visiting Israel as a kid is bodysurfing in the warm waves), so we found a private beach/cove and for 10 TL ($6) each, we could sun and swim all day.
If I had some photoshopping skills I’d get rid of the lady in the background, but lets just say I was going for realism, instead of a family portrait. There were tons of Europeans there with very white skin trying to absorb as much UV as possible. It made my skin hurt to watch them turn red and go back for more.
Working on stroke refinement. The Med has a higher salt content so it’s extra buoyant– great for swim practice.
Camille loves the water. She likes to splash in it, suck the salt off her hands, get passed around from person to person, eat sand . . .
Josh, Caleb, and Calvin swam out to this large rock so they could jump off it — Caleb made it all the way out there without help.
Carter, ever the fisherman, trying to catch minnows with his bare hands.
I picked a chair in the second row so I had a barrier between Camille and the water’s edge. Traveling with a baby has been more complicated, but we’ve still been able to do almost everything we’ve wanted to do.
Caleb making “sandballs” and tossing them in the air.