Day 5- Awareness Talk

Today I was meant to have my training with Wid but she was still away until the evening. Some of the others went out to do a snorkel survey while I stayed in with two volunteers; Claire and Dylan. Dylan before I arrived split his toe when he attempted to rock climb when he was out swimming so was unable to do many of the activities. We talked quite a bit as he was also a second year at university but he was at Liverpool Hope University. Later that morning I used the data on the laptop to see if the Hawksbill I saw the other day was a new one. There were a couple that looked similar, so I couldn’t be sure if it was a new one. I was looking out the window at the fruit tree next door, I saw movement and saw there was several squirrels in the tree. These were Plantain Squirrels, I had my camera nearby and was photographing them for at least half an hour. They have brown tops, black stripe with an orange belly (photos to follow). I also saw some white bellied fish eagles flying out to sea. After lunch Wid returned, we helped get the shopping from the Jetty to the house. This was good as we were very low on food. Once all the food was put away, Ramona went through the presentation board we use when we educate divers. One of the dive centres on the other island requested an awareness talk in the evening. Dan, Ramona and I, headed over there. A lot of the divers had just returned from dives so was the perfect time to do a presentation as they were trapped. We start the talk with some fun facts about turtles and finish with information of our organisation and how divers can help. There were a few people who didn’t look that interested but most people were very engaged. I saw several people looking up our website and facebook. Back at the house we watched Cool Runnings before going to bed.