Old Fethiye & Calis Photos

[loz]

I have joined a Group on Facebook because of the Old Photos of Fethiye and Calis.  I hope that they upload more.

Old Photos from Fethiye VideolarI

I think you can view without joining.

[Scunner]

Wow they've nicked our IanK's bike ride video https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=2034750822021

[Jenny Daly]

Excellent - thank you for those photos, I love seeing old pictures, amazing to think there was once a railway line running through Calis - no signs of that today, and no sign of the canal??

[Scunner]

The railway line was for transporting locally mined chromium onto boats that docked at the end of the beach (now Sat Restaurant).

[philrose]

If you walk out towards the Sat at the end of the beach and take a close look as you walk along the footpath, you can still see the old rail lines in places.
Also if you take a swim in the sea you'll probably stub your foot on one of the old blocks of concrete that was part of the construction..

[Scunner]

Yes I wanted to swim to Sovalye Island from there but someone had changed the points and I ended up in Rhodes! Farmer posted saying there was (I think) a land shift caused by earth tremor that tipped the tracks seaward, so that was the end of that.

[Scunner]

Reminds me of another great CBF topic {A Link to an old CBF topic was here - no longer available}23306

I wonder how long before they get nicked too  

[SteveJ]

A neighbour (a guy in his 70's) regularly swims over to the island and back. He once told me that the sea was very choppy one day so he did the return swim underwater!

[puma]

thanks i enjoyed the video
they must have rode some miles

[grizabella]

Being a comparative 'Newbie' to Calis.....just over 3 years.......was lovely to see the old photos of Calis and Fethiye.Quaint and charming,but life goes on and everthing changes.Sometimes for the better and sometimes not.