Friday Tanya one of our volunteers was still feeling ill so I just went on survey with Spencer. We paddled over to PIR and started survey in the hour we were there we only saw 3 turtles which was a little disappointing. We did however see one of the juveniles I haven't seen that often Bojin.
Saturday was my off day so I started to write the July report. This is something we as interns alternate writing each month. In the report we analyse and talk about all the data collected for that previous month. We also talk about how many volunteers we have had and any event activities for example this month we had the Outlook school group come. We
have had a variety of nationalities this month, for example French, Turkish,
English, Canadian and American. We also look at our underwater survey data and
check things like the most sighted turtle and also we look at the nesting data and
see things like average number of eggs. For July it was 85 compared to 93 last
month. This is expected as the season goes on returning turtles lay less eggs.
Turtles can come back to nest as many as 9 times.
Later on we all had dinner before getting ready to go out. It
was Ramona's birthday Monday so we were doing a night to Long Beach to
celebrate. I made her a card using some images I took when we were at Tiga
Ruang.
We went to the Jetty at 9 there were 12 of us in total from our project
and the other projects. I helped everyone get on the boat as it was quite
choppy due to the wind. When we arrived at the jetty at long beach it was still
a little bit choppy.
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As I got off I tried to hold the front of the boat but as I did the tide dropped and the boat crushed my finger. I pulled my finger out and at first thought it was okay but as I got up the steps I looked at my finger and it was quite badly damaged. I sucked the blood away and went to sit down.
As I got off I tried to hold the front of the boat but as I did the tide dropped and the boat crushed my finger. I pulled my finger out and at first thought it was okay but as I got up the steps I looked at my finger and it was quite badly damaged. I sucked the blood away and went to sit down.
Everyone got off the boat and then realised I was sitting down and came over.
They saw my finger and asked if I was okay. I tried to brave it and got up to
walk as I did the others said I went really pale and I was sweating so I sat back
down. One of the volunteers from community project, Farhan from
Manchester day right in my face asking if I was okay. I was feeling dizzy so
asked him to give me some space. I sat for a bit then some people headed to the
beach to go to one of the beach bars to get some aid. I tried walking along the
Jetty and suddenly felt like I was your to black out so sat down. Eventually i
got up and walked to the bar where the others were and Maisy helped me. When we
got to the beach I asked the reception at the closest resort if they have any
bandages and for a glass of water as I was definitely in shock. After the water
I felt a lot better and Anne wrapped my finger up. I had a crab hand.
I started feeling a bit
better so I continued the night. We went to one of the main areas and took a
seat. Everyone went to get a drink before the fire show. My thoughts were the
more I drink the less pain I would be in and safe to say I was pretty drunk by
the end of the night. Overall it was a very good night and I think Ramona
enjoyed herself. We got the boat back at 1-2ish as we were all off to
Redang the next day.
So 8 o'clock we were up to get ready to leave for Redang at 9. Redang was larger islands about an hour north of the Perhentians. There was a couple of turtle projects on the island we would be visiting. One that Wid had previously interned at. These projects solely focused on nesting turtles no underwater surveying. When we arrived we picked Up Sey Ling who was the previous leader of project who now monitors all turtles projects around the province Terrenganu. We went to a spot on the island similar to PIR on the Perhentians. There were a lot of turtles but we soon found out why. Many of the tourist boats to give a different experience fed the turtles fish and squid to give a closer experience to their tourists. It was really cool watching the turtles get really close but for the wrong reasons.
I witnessed several tourists touching the turtles face etc. After this we went to the turtle project Wid worked at. They do insitu nesting which means they don't relocated the nests but instead put covers over some of them and let the hatchlings emerge naturally. They get a lot more turtles than we do probably due to the reduced tourism on Redang. They were really cool guys and their camp was awesome. They take on a lot more volunteers than us but they have a slightly larger beach and
And more nests to monitor. They also get some Hawksbill nests which we don't. They made us some brunch just noodles in a spicy sauce but was nice as we were all a bit hungry. Next stop on our trip was Redang's equivalent of Long Beach the tourist area. Here we went snorkeling to a sunken post box and we saw lots of fish and I swam above a shoal of at least 200 fish.
The final stop on the trip was to the Marine Park. Here they try to manage fishing and coral etc around the local area. We went for a snorkel saw some sharks and a moral eel. Then we headed for lunch Wid had got us all packed lunch I had Nice Daging. Which is Rice and Beef.
We then headed home and I was feeling very tired, however I had been chosen to go to Tiga Ruang to join Nick for night patrol. When I got there I fell asleep until the late shift where I took over from Nick luckily there were no turtles as I would have been no good to collect eggs. Selamat Malan (good night).
So 8 o'clock we were up to get ready to leave for Redang at 9. Redang was larger islands about an hour north of the Perhentians. There was a couple of turtle projects on the island we would be visiting. One that Wid had previously interned at. These projects solely focused on nesting turtles no underwater surveying. When we arrived we picked Up Sey Ling who was the previous leader of project who now monitors all turtles projects around the province Terrenganu. We went to a spot on the island similar to PIR on the Perhentians. There were a lot of turtles but we soon found out why. Many of the tourist boats to give a different experience fed the turtles fish and squid to give a closer experience to their tourists. It was really cool watching the turtles get really close but for the wrong reasons.
I witnessed several tourists touching the turtles face etc. After this we went to the turtle project Wid worked at. They do insitu nesting which means they don't relocated the nests but instead put covers over some of them and let the hatchlings emerge naturally. They get a lot more turtles than we do probably due to the reduced tourism on Redang. They were really cool guys and their camp was awesome. They take on a lot more volunteers than us but they have a slightly larger beach and
And more nests to monitor. They also get some Hawksbill nests which we don't. They made us some brunch just noodles in a spicy sauce but was nice as we were all a bit hungry. Next stop on our trip was Redang's equivalent of Long Beach the tourist area. Here we went snorkeling to a sunken post box and we saw lots of fish and I swam above a shoal of at least 200 fish.
The final stop on the trip was to the Marine Park. Here they try to manage fishing and coral etc around the local area. We went for a snorkel saw some sharks and a moral eel. Then we headed for lunch Wid had got us all packed lunch I had Nice Daging. Which is Rice and Beef.
We then headed home and I was feeling very tired, however I had been chosen to go to Tiga Ruang to join Nick for night patrol. When I got there I fell asleep until the late shift where I took over from Nick luckily there were no turtles as I would have been no good to collect eggs. Selamat Malan (good night).
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