Day 9- Dusty Leaf Monkeys Tiga Ruang

I got up about 9 considering I didn't sleep til like 5. Me and Nick tidied up the hut and then Nick started making breakfast. He was making eggy bread, New Yorker style. Not that I've mentioned her Nick is a 6ft 3 big New Yorker who has been doing marine and turtle work for several years since he finished school. Anyway, we had breakfast and then Nick told me we are expecting a family of 3 coming from the Universal Dive centre for a turtle talk about our work here etc. They were a Dutch family who were very interested about the facts Nick was telling them and I managed to help answer some questions they had. While we were talking, some of the monkeys who live on the island arrived and started jumping round nearby trees. They were Dusty Leaf Monkeys which is a species of Langur monkey. It was a family group with one baby, dusty leaf monkeys are grey with big grey eyes and bellies. The babies, however are bright orange.

Later everyone just chilled for a bit, me and the volunteers went for a snorkel round the bay where there was some interesting coral. When I got back to the beach I did some sunbathing. However I had forgotten I hadn't sun creamed my back and now it's burnt a bit. I then made some noodles for lunch and had a nap in one of the hammocks. I had taken mine down as the beach during the day gets quite busy with tourists and it was slightly out the way of our camp. Two guys who owned a sailing boat off the coast of Tiga Ruang came to our camp asking if they could steal some water. Nick had been letting these guys all week so I said it was fine. One of them was Australian and the other was Thai. They had been travelling for quite a while, round New Zealand, Philipenes and now Malaysia. They brought us a nice proper bar of chocolate to say thanks. Nick was cooking dinner again tonight and did good once again. After dinner we started patrol, I again did the early shift more to follow on details of the patrol tomorrow.