Three separate problems, not one
Guests usually plan for water and are ambushed by the other two. The first threat is deliberate water: water pistols between vehicles, and the shallow crossings the jeeps drive through. The second is fine dust, thrown up all day by the convoy itself and just as capable of ending a camera. The third is that the jeep is open at the top and moving, so anything not attached to you can leave without asking.
None of that is a reason to leave the camera in the room. It is a reason to decide before you set off where the device will live for the day, rather than working it out at the first splash.
The water is not incidental
On summer departures the water fight between the jeeps is a fixture, not a rumour, and the whole point of it is that everyone gets soaked. Add the stream and river crossings the vehicles drive through, and, where the route has one, the swim stop, and there is no dry corner of the day to hide a phone in.
Do not count on a lockable compartment to leave things in either. What you bring travels with you, which is why swimwear goes on under your clothes and dry clothes and a towel go in a bag; if you want the reasoning behind the whole kit, what to wear and bring is set out on its own page.
Dust is the quieter problem
The tracks are unsurfaced. A convoy of open vehicles raises fine dust that finds lens barrels, charging ports and every seam in a camera bag, and unlike water it does not announce itself — you notice it two days later when the zoom feels gritty.
The practical move is to keep the device sealed between shots rather than looped around your neck all day. A pouch that closes is doing two jobs at once, and the off-road part of the day is where both of them matter most.
The pouch, and how people actually use it
A waterproof bag or pouch for a phone and valuables is on the bring list for every one of the five departures, and this is what it is for. We do not recommend particular products or brands, and none is provided on the day — buy whatever seals properly before you travel, and test it at the hotel with a folded tissue inside before you trust a phone to it.
Worn across the body it survives crossings, water games and the walk down to a swim stop. Left loose in a day bag on the seat beside you, it does not, because the bag is what gets hit first.
Filming from a moving jeep
You are a passenger for the entire day; the driving is done by a professional driver and no guest ever takes the wheel. That means both your hands are available, but it also means the vehicle will move under you without warning on a rutted track.
Use a wrist loop or a strap of some kind, shoot in short bursts at the viewpoints and at the stops rather than continuously, and put the phone away before a crossing rather than during one. What safety on these tracks means in practice is described separately, and it applies to your grip on a camera as much as to your grip on the handrail.
If it does get wet anyway
Sometimes it happens. Turn it off, leave it off, dry the outside and do not charge it until it has spent a long time somewhere warm and dry — the hotel room, not the sun on a rock. Charging a wet device is what turns an accident into a loss.
This is also the argument for not carrying the whole holiday in one pocket. Cash for the day in a sealed envelope, the phone in a sealed pouch, and everything else left in the hotel safe means a bad moment at the river stays a story rather than a problem.
Winter departures are a different day
Out of season the fleet switches to covered jeeps and the water games come off the programme, which removes most of the risk in one step. Dust and vibration are still there.
A day on the Antalya departure is not the same out of season as at the height of summer, and photographs behave accordingly: the tracks are still rough and dusty, but nobody is throwing water at your lens.