© Kalkan Rebuilds! - Latest update. New artist impressions.

March 5th 2015.

UPDATE on Kalkan Re-Build! Set for start on March 26th and 70 days to complete?
here's hoping all goes well for our lovely town!

http://kalkan.turkishlocalnews.com/portal/kalkan-news/421566-kalkan-harbour-fire-redevelopment-update-march-2015

Update February '15 .... storm damages the road to Kas!  Looks like major work ahead?

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=884737081568743&set=vb.100000973792796&type=2&theater

Highway from Kalkan to Kas badly damaged.

After a devastating fire near the waterfront earlier this year, which destroyed several of Kalkan's well known restaurants the rebuilding begins!

Updates will be posted on this site as we receive them .....

Heavy equipment now clearing the debris from the burned area of Kalkan waterfront. New artist impressions are submitted for the next phase of rebuilding the popular Turkish resort on the Turquoise Coast!

After the Storm - beautiful views from our Villa in Kisla. (photo by Derman)

We returned in March of this year and saw the progress for ourselves. All the destruction has now been cleared and the area being prepared for the new foundations.

June 5th 2015.

Looking at the web pictures of Kalkan we see new streets being laid in Old Town, the work reportedly finishing in about 10 days? Maybe a slower season than expected ahead? We all will be watching the Election this coming Sunday 7th June. Our little town is showing promise of looking really smart!

... and the restaurant building begin their re-build!

October 2015: We return to Kalkan and see the work well in progress with the new site in the harbour district damaged by fire. New facilities underway and restaurants returning! The new streets repairs came out beautifully and the town was full when I first arrived in Mid-September.

                  

The harbour looking as picturesque as ever and the view from the roadside overlooking the town spectacular!

January 2016.

Once again a return to Kalkan! This time for longer residency to enjoy a home here and keep company with some really wonderful people. The town as always being prepared for the upcoming season. January days are much cooler than experienced before. Yet the sun shines and the days are mostly clear and spectacular. A beautiful place to be compared to the wet & cold of the UK or terrible snow storms in the USA! The cruise boats still on dry dock also being readied for their busy times ahead.

The new waterfront is taking great shape and should be well ready for the first visitors arrival in the Spring?

February 2016. Working progressing well. Ready by the season all being well.

© Wildlife & Nature Photography by Paul Harding

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During the last few years I have specialised in wildlife & nature photography. While flying through the Bahamas with my commercial seaplane charter service there was always a camera stowed close at hand. The aerial views of this island archipelago are often beyond belief. The resulting photographs often look as if they have been enhanced in some ways when the actual colours of the ocean there are as dramatic as the camera records. I added commercial aerial photography to my business portfolio and have been published in popular marine navigation chart publications found in the United States & Caribbean.

The stunning Exuma Cays, Bahamas

With the growing popularity of my photography I branched more into nature photography which coincided with some extra ordinary travel opportunities, namely visiting beautiful Alaska, returning to the countryside of southern England and a stunning opportunity to re-visit East Africa on the Mara Plains. The time spent in the Bahamas was both recorded from the air and underwater with a dive operation I ran for 17 years. The ensuing Facebook page is for all to enjoy: https://www.facebook.com/PaulsNaturePhotography

During my career in the Bahamas I was offered to shoot video for a project that would be aired on the Discovery Channel working with Jeff Hughes, a producer and friend from Beaumont, Texas. We worked on over a dozen of the TV Series 'The International Outdoorsman'. I was honoured to shoot the first shark film aired on that station that later became a hit series that continues today called 'Shark Week'.

All of these adventures with nature will be featured in my autobiography, a work in progress called 'Sharks in the Runway'!

'The Sharks of Stella Maris' TV film shoot in Long Island, Bahamas.

The popular visit by seaplane to the famous Alan's Cay Iguanas

The very popular 'swimming pigs' at Big Major's Spot, Exuma, Bahamas

A highlight of my diving career, swimming with a 40ft Sperm Whale!


When traveling away from our home in the Bahamas the camera equipment is more often close by! Alaska gave some outstanding close encounters with wildlife far from the commercial ports of call usually visited. I will post those photos here soon. Meantime a few from a safari in 2014 to The Mara Plains of East Africa. An amazing experience having me return to the continent I loved in the 1970s living in the bush for a month. Five years ago chance arose and I found myself back on the Mara photographing gorgeous portraits of life there.