Katrancı Bay Nature Park

This guide to Katrancı Bay Nature Park in Muğla starts from a mismatch between travel-write-up claims of a vast coastline and the government paperwork behind its 2011 designation, then walks the three linked coves, Katrancı, Kızlar and Mersinli, that the park actually covers. It traces the shoreline's history back to a 1965 recreation designation, decades before the park itself existed, and follows the crowding, sun-lounger prices and online grumbling that define a visit there today. It leaves open which of its two very different numbers actually measures the place.