Day 22-24

After Rachel left yesterday it was time for our next volunteers to arrive, they were due in at around 9 and it was my job to go down and greet them. Their names were Emir and Selen, they were from Turkey and were another couple. I showed them to the house they too had come from our other project and were very tired. I let them sleep for a bit before going through the code of conduct form and house rules. I also briefly went through the presentations of what we do as an organisation but they were off to Tiga Ruang that evening with Dan and the French couple so kept it short. I had another volunteer arriving at 4, Annie from England. So again I went down the Jetty to meet her, however when the boat arrived I was passed a wheel-barrow but no volunteer. Turns out the wheel-barrow was for our dive project team and our volunteer had a flight delay and wouldn't be getting there til 5. I went and delivered the wheel Barrow and then got a banana milkshake before going to sit at the Jetty. 

Turned out as it was later the boat didn't leave Kuala Besut til 5:50 so arrived at the village at 6:30. I helped her off and showed her to the house. We had dinner then I went through the paperwork and quickly the presentations but she was tired so got an early night.

The next morning I took her for water confidence before survey over at PIR we saw 5 turtles and I got photos of all 5, they were all different and we managed to ID 4 of them. 1 of them I thought was one of frequent visitors due to a barnacle on her left side but turned out it wasn't but my facial shots weren't good enough to ID. We saw a male, 2 females and 2 juveniles. Later I did a village tour and then she went off to Pitani while we worked. Melissa, Wid and Maisy are currently sorting a new software called I3S which will make photo ID a lot easier.
On the final day of this blog I took Annie on a beach clean along the path to long beach. It is a 3.2km walk around the coast and a lot of tourists drop bottles, cigarette packets and wrappers etc. The route starts off okay but further along it gets really steep and the path gets lost under the vegetation. On our way we saw a green crested lizard and a dragonfly flew on its head.

We managed to fill 2 large bags of rubbish by the end of the walk and went for a swim at long beach to cool off. After our swim we went to get a drink and it was around lunch time so I decided to buy food, I looked at the menu and found Pizza. It was 18 RM for a chicken pizza but I didn't care I missed pizza.  It came and it was so good and an okay size, fully worth the 18 RM. We then got picked up and headed back to the village.