Emerald seas, with corrugated sands below and waters with changing degrees give pleasure to skin and mind as they blissfully eddy us along.

Peace perfect peace is the gift of Turkey. Breathe, see, hear and smell and take it all in, including the heat. Embrace it, you were meant for it.

We snorkel in rocky pools with different kinds of fish. Some long with sand coloured granular bodies, others are thin, flat, light, yellow, silver and translucent. They follow in our footsteps as we kick up the sand.

So many shades of blue. Magnificent turquoise, emerald, navy and amethyst lap up against us. We see how sun lights up mid blues though powder and bright white cotton as we look above us, and witness her shimmers, shards and shafts made from light sent down to cut through endless watery space.

Coves, lagoons and places where salt and fresh waters meet. Pine forests and encapsulating mountains harbouring secret and ancient wonders, some hidden until the tide turns.

From on high we notice how sands, rock, shingle and dunes meet the Mediterranean dramatically as we float on the thermals. Looking down we see how the landscape is formed with wonderful sandy shelves encircling all land before the blues.

We understand how much heaven we have and how far we can go under the sea – life is everywhere.

On land? A total sense of wonderment as we all see tall craggy mountains capped with clay brown tops, scorched, scrapped and scarred, forged millennia ago.

So high, everywhere they enable the country to tick and industrious people to plant and grow everything: chickens, cows, goats, sheep, nuts, fruits and vegetables.

And there are spices that fill our noses and the air as they rush through the staggeringly beautiful Seklikent gorge long after the dinosaurs are gone. None the less we see them around every corner of this fantastic place.

People here understand harmony, they find this in their belief however faint, and they find it in us, and we in them.

They are forward looking but understand so much of what brother Robert Nester Marley sang of in Buffalo Soldiers – their relics are amazing and show both enlightenment and accomplishment.

Turks know that their nation will grow from strength to strength, as it was in the beginning so shall it be in the end.

My time here is near its end, as it is for my party. This experience is both immediate and, I am sure, reflective, as I dream of emerald seas.