Day 60- We hate Mondays

Monday was weird with everyone gone as Hazel was the only volunteer left in the house. We were expecting 6 new volunteers today though. One of them was an American girl called Madisen meant to be coming at 8am from another Ecoteer project in Merapoh. The other 5 were all University friends from Portugal and the thought was they are all travelling together on the same boat at around 12. However, Madisen never showed up on the early boat and 2 of the Portuguese a couple Madia and Alexandre arrived on a 9-10 o'clock boat. I was out on survey while this was going on with Hazel. It again was very very hot today and kayaking was tough in the heat. When we got there it was really clear so I suggested we survey in deeper waters as we rarely get out to deep. Hazel spotted a juvenile but hazel couldn't dive so I went in the water. I forgot to patch my finger up, the one that got crushed under a boat as at the moment the nail is coming off, so when I got in the water it ripped back and hurt a lot. I could dive down still while holding the nail but couldn't dive down quick enough to take a photo so the first turtle got away. This happened again with 2 more turtles all juveniles that I couldn't dive down quick enough so I missed them. One of the juveniles I believe to be a new one but with no facial ID I won't know unless I find it again. We went a bit shallower as the deeper water wasn't working for me and found Long Dragon surrounded by lots of tourists, I managed to get a photo of him before he too swam away. This was not a good survey this morning. 

We kayaked back to the village and when we got back to the house the other 3 Portuguese volunteers were still not arrived. Maisy went down to the Jetty at around 12 to wait for them. At 1 I took Hazel and the Portuguese couple down to be jetty for lunch, while there Maisy messaged me saying she was still waiting. I brought Maisy lunch and went to meet her, she decided to follow me back to the house and see if there were any messages about their arrival. We got a message saying they would be in the 3pm boat. Nick me hazel and the Portuguese couple were off to Tiga Ruang tonight so I started packing. While doing that the last 3 Portuguese showed up and it was only just gone 2. Monday's are such a mess sometimes. It also turned out Madisen the American girl left Merapoh after 2 days and was never coming to the turtle project but no one told us. At 4-5 Ainn arrived from the mainland with all our good shopping, I was excited as I asked Wid to get me a bar of diary milk chocolate which we can't get on the islands. We unpacked the shopping Wid had gone a bit crazy with the amount I jam an milk she brought but it was nice to have full cupboards as before that we had pasta, cabbage, cucumber and ginger. We gathered what we needed for Tiga Ruang and headed down to the jetty for about 7.