reservoir past karsiaka

fosterscan


Joined: 27/02/2010
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Message Posted:
27/02/2010 22:10

Hi after all the rain over there is the reservoir by the hill full was over last February and not much water in there but fantastic views.

rollinbones


Joined: 14/11/2008
Posts: 201

Message Posted:
27/02/2010 22:12

walked around it last week, getting very full but they do however use it for irrigating the fields in the summer, after the rain this week it should be overflowing!

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
27/02/2010 22:16

It's the Geçitköy göleti (reservoir) and it is completely full. In fact it started to overflow yesterday, fortunately the water found a way to the sea without causing too much damage.

fosterscan


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Posts: 541

Message Posted:
27/02/2010 22:23

is there any chance of a photo being taken and posted as by the time were over again it will be low again

Jetski


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Posts: 584

Message Posted:
27/02/2010 22:24

The water is flowing via the spillway down its original Paleomilos river course and is a lovely sight. The first time in 5 years that it's overflowed. Halfway through the gorge the Vathyrkakas tributary joins it via a series of delightful waterfalls. Well worth a visit and some photos. Apart from a few flattened reeds I couldn't see ANY damage. What were you referring to Hans?

NCWeddings


Joined: 06/08/2009
Posts: 135

Message Posted:
28/02/2010 09:25

Ive a photo of it overflowing that I took yesterday, but I don't know how to get it on here........if some one will tell me i'll put it on.

JohhnyLee


Joined: 25/04/2009
Posts: 2495

Message Posted:
28/02/2010 13:17

We also have photos and Videos but do not have the IT skills to show them on here. We went approx 2 weeks ago and it did not have a great deal of water in it,



But yesterday was amazing. Lot's of locals there , and knee deep in mud almost got our 4x4 stuck. (great fun)



We have excellent photos of the waterfalls behind our villa high up in Baspinar, and Videos, the sound is unreal, it is like standing next to Waterfall in Wales.



If we could have this in Summer, it would be the icing on the cake.

Mountain Edge



Joined: 23/02/2007
Posts: 199

Message Posted:
28/02/2010 14:37

Come on then, somebody get some photo's on. I have been visiting the area for years and have seen nothing but the bottom of the reservoir. I am not back over until May and it will be empty by then.

NCWeddings


Joined: 06/08/2009
Posts: 135

Message Posted:
28/02/2010 17:14

some one tell me how to get the photo's on and i will!!!

gingernut



Joined: 30/08/2009
Posts: 16

Message Posted:
28/02/2010 18:16

hi Vash, as far as im aware you can put a link on to your facebook album thats the only way ive seen



darren

britvic



Joined: 05/09/2008
Posts: 3039

Message Posted:
28/02/2010 18:21

Go to http://www.postimage.org and upload the photo then paste the link here.



Vicki

astonhilbilly


Joined: 05/05/2009
Posts: 162

Message Posted:
28/02/2010 19:17

Photo's anyone?? Waiting patiently here in the UK!

DutchCrusader



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Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
28/02/2010 20:23

If you have one or more photographs (reservoir) you would like other board members to view: mail them to me hd@allcrusades.com and I'll upload them to my server for everybody to enjoy.

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
28/02/2010 23:37

Including the damage Hans ? (what damage? - you never answered my question - did you even go there?)

Jetski


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Message Posted:
01/03/2010 00:05

All quiet on the DC front then.........

NCWeddings


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Posts: 135

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 09:40

Ok, I think i've done it......

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=PqWhgXi

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=PqWhqVS

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=PqWhAUr

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=PqWhInS

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aVFSw9S

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aVFSG8r

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aVFSL7J



if it doesn't work i'll email them over to Hans, so let me know!

spanna


Joined: 12/01/2009
Posts: 544

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 09:44

Wow... where was that last picture... we headed down to the reservoir yesterday - looked beautiful...didn't see that road though... or lack thereof!!!

StGeorgeI


Joined: 27/08/2009
Posts: 973

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 09:48

OMG - brilliant pics, thanks for posting. Where is that (non) road???



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NCWeddings


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Posts: 135

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 10:09

Husband said i should have put this one on as well:

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aVFW_10

NCWeddings


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Posts: 135

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 10:11

(And of course I always do what hubbie tells me!!)



The last pic is a bridge on the back road that connects two villages - Yilmazkoy and Kalkanli. You head out Guzelyurt direction then turn right.

StGeorgeI


Joined: 27/08/2009
Posts: 973

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 10:21

Thanks for taking the time to post them Vashti.



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fosterscan


Joined: 27/02/2010
Posts: 541

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 10:26

Thank you very much for posting the photos, It brings back the memories and beauty of the area ,its nice to know were not the only ones who love this area cheers

Mountain Edge



Joined: 23/02/2007
Posts: 199

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 10:50

I will have to wait until I get home tonight to look at the pics, can't wait.

My work computer has a superscout on it that stops me accessing things like that.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 11:06

RE Jetski: Yes, I made a tour to make pictures (as far as I could go from Yesiltepe in both directions). And I compared the damage with the pictures from Lefkoşa which I saw on BRT TV. I agree I should have been more careful in my English - the damage at Geçitköy was the loss of tons and tons of good soil and other possible damage to (the bottom of the dam) can only been seen and determined later.

joandjelly


Joined: 24/02/2008
Posts: 2953

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 11:29

Great pics thanks. We went for a walk there last Wednesday, the day before it rained, and the water level was quite far below the measuring stick so it just shows how much rain fell in 2 days.

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 11:44

NCWeddings, thankyou for putting the pics on, I have been wondering about the ditches and ravines.



Do you know if much farm land has been washed away, (top soil)? As they would have a lot of their corn in.



Has any one got pics of water running off the mountain in the ravines?

lovingcyprus


Joined: 02/03/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 11:53

excellent photos

NCWeddings


Joined: 06/08/2009
Posts: 135

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 12:04

We didn't go through much agricultural land, but so many of the natural fields were still under water, so I imagine when the floods were still "running" they must have lost soil and crops damaged. I dont really know though.

viper


Joined: 14/07/2008
Posts: 119

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 12:26

Great phots





viper

JamesB


Joined: 07/02/2007
Posts: 450

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 12:27

Nice pics NCWeddings, i like the one of the colapsed bridge, does anyone know when it happened ?

surprising really there looks to be at least 6 inch of hard core between the tarmac and the SOFT sand!



JB

NCWeddings


Joined: 06/08/2009
Posts: 135

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 13:03

Not sure exactly when the bridge collapsed, but Friday some time.

What's going on with this world of ours, floods, earthquakes.......think mother nature is trying to tell us something maybe.

MarkVPiazza


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 530

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 13:32

These events have always happened, we just never heard about them because we didn't have the internet & 24hour news channels

dizzycows


Joined: 12/05/2009
Posts: 2736

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 15:12

Very true MarkVPiazza, thats why the ravines are there in NC..... Nobody knew if it rained hard 100 yrs ago!

Dumyat


Joined: 26/08/2009
Posts: 139

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 16:06

Great comments from all and pics are fab,



Will someone give me directions to the reservoir from Karsiyaka.



Regards,



Dumyat.

batgirl


Joined: 04/02/2009
Posts: 676

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 16:33

Drive from Karsiyaka heading west after the night clubs the road bends left and right then through the village of Gecitkoy, with the mosque on your right ,as you start to clime up the hill you will see the dam on your left. Dont deviate off the road and follow your nose.

Krin52


Joined: 25/08/2008
Posts: 419

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 16:37

Okay, so how do I make it a link? Here's a photo of the FULL dam taken around 3pm Monday, the water is still running down the spillway and through the creek bed to the sea at Karsiyaka!



You can copy and paste the following until I work out how to make the link work



http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gxd4WDA



Dumyat, from Karsiyaka head west as if you were going to Guzelyurt through the mountains and through the village, Gecitkoy. You'll see the turn off to the spillway on your left just out of the village....or drive further up the mountain and pull into the viewing area up top, the view down is spectacular. Everything is so green and clean!

Krin52


Joined: 25/08/2008
Posts: 419

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 16:39

Ah ha, so just by posting, it makes a link! You learn something every day!



Sorry to repeat Batgirl's directions, I took too long to work the link thing

Mountain Edge



Joined: 23/02/2007
Posts: 199

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 18:50

Great pics but can anybody get some more of the of the reservoir itself before it subsides.

lovingcyprus


Joined: 02/03/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 18:56

Why will the reservoir subside????

Mountain Edge



Joined: 23/02/2007
Posts: 199

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 19:15

I suspect the water will get used

Mountain Edge



Joined: 23/02/2007
Posts: 199

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 19:16

I did mean the water in it not the land itself.

Oh and I forgot to mention that because I won't be there until May it will have gone down quite a bit.

Krin52


Joined: 25/08/2008
Posts: 419

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 19:58

Try this then Mountain Edge - hard to get much closer, the ground was way too soggy to go clambering any further!

Taken Monday afternoon



http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aVHjnEJ

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 20:03

Great photo thanks..







Spider,X

Mountain Edge



Joined: 23/02/2007
Posts: 199

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 20:04

Excellent Krin52 Thank You. That was what I wanted to see to get the right perspective and the other ones bring it all together for me.

fosterscan


Joined: 27/02/2010
Posts: 541

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 20:39

Thanks for the new great pics cant wait to be over there again probably august .didn't know we could walk around it so that will go on my to do list.looked at my old photos with not much water in it what a difference.

britvic



Joined: 05/09/2008
Posts: 3039

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 20:52

Just one little moan, when your in postimage.org could you please resize the photo for websites and emails? That way it won't take so long to load.



Thanks

Vicki

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 21:08

Sad to see that the "cormorant tree" has finally met its maker..... it used to stand in the water (albeit long dead) on the North side of the reservoir and often had a flock (herd, shoal, pod, murder or raft) of cormorant (or Shag) hanging around in it... much like the vultures in Jungle Book (remember?). It seems to have collapsed over the winter - two weeks ago just a few branches above the waterline - now nothing. Good that the frogs are back and the little bittern can still be heard in the reeds. The Black Tulips should also be up soon around the Southern rim of the reservoir - but don't touch 'em or I'll get my big mate George on to you!

fosterscan


Joined: 27/02/2010
Posts: 541

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 21:16

britvic they were worth the wait .......as to see it in real time would be at least 10 hours for me lol

britvic



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Posts: 3039

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 21:20

Well its taking about that length of time to see them on my very slow 2g dongle!

fosterscan


Joined: 27/02/2010
Posts: 541

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 21:32

where do you park when you walk around ive only parked in the layby on the hill and looked over it .

Krin52


Joined: 25/08/2008
Posts: 419

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 21:38

As you come out of Gecitkoy heading up the mountain, there is a pull-out a little ways up to the first bend..... to the left, you can see the slipway from there, you can park there and walk over to the dam. There were people walking along the dam wall this afternoon, and I believe you can actually walk all the way around it - when it's not so soggy!



Sorry about the sizing Britvic! Next time

joandjelly


Joined: 24/02/2008
Posts: 2953

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 23:21

Jetski the Cormorant tree was there last Wednesday but only just barely showing. It will probably re-emerge over the Summer. I also saw a massive Heron flying over the water.

spider


Joined: 03/01/2009
Posts: 5527

Message Posted:
01/03/2010 23:31

We walked round last year with some friends and it took us 4 1/2 hrs..we took our time.!! Sadly too our little dog got poisioned when walking there with my husband she picked up a dead bird that had also died from the big P..we always thought it a safe place to walk her..we brought her over with us,she was 6yrs old and such a much loved dog.



Thanks again for some fantastic photos..We intend to do the walk again soon before it gets to hot,





Spider,X

NCWeddings


Joined: 06/08/2009
Posts: 135

Message Posted:
02/03/2010 17:27

These are the only other ones I took of the Reservoir, not great, but you can see WATER!!

Didn't realise there was poison up there Spider, so sorry to hear about yours. We have taken our dogs before now, was it recently?

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gxgEsZJ

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gxgEFsr

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gxgEPr0

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gxgEWVr

http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gxgF0UJ

fosterscan


Joined: 27/02/2010
Posts: 541

Message Posted:
02/03/2010 19:46

loving the water slide photos cant believe how much water is in there cheers

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
02/03/2010 22:36

jo and jelly - thanks for your observations! - it would be great if had managed to survive the onslaught!.....but I really do think it's now fallen over. Can anyone else confim? - (oh - and I saw a cormorant diving today off Karsiyaka. Summer's comming!)