Monday morning I came back from Tiga Ruang with Ramona and I met the new volunteer at the house. She was called Katie and was also from Essex like Dan and just like Dan didn't have that over the top accent. Maisy was doing Katie's orientation, Dan was out doing a beach clean at Teluk Keke with the Volunteers which meant I could catch up with the world. In the afternoon I borrowed Lenny and went for a Snorkel Survey to PIR with Nadia and Priyanka. We only saw 4 turtles, 3 juveniles and an adult however, one of the juveniles couldn't be identified. This was partly due to Lenny's poor photography and we only had one side so even if it was a new turtle we can't confirm it unless both sides are photographed. Never letting Lenny with the camera on survey again can't risk a new turtle being missed.
Video footage of Long Dragon one of the males in our database
https://youtu.be/t6UZSXlQNz0
Turtle Surfacing
https://youtu.be/R-LY3eTngqY
Adele not the singer but the turtle
https://youtu.be/Q6hs_EDNWQc
Tuesday myself and Maisy went on another survey in the morning and we were meant to be picking up Nadia and Priyanka, however Priyanka had text Maisy saying Nadia was ill so wouldn't be coming on survey. We met Priyanka at the Jetty and started our survey, in the first 5 minutes I saw Hope, followed by Long Dragon. Priyanka swapped with Maisy and most of the survey it was me and Maisy in the water. It was such a fun and successful survey and we saw 11 different turtles. We also got some amazing video footage of the turtles swimming, eating and tourists interacting with the turtles. Normally we do not bother with videos, but Sian from Community project is going to be making a turtle awareness video so we got lots of footage for her to use. This was the first time in ages that two Interns had been out on survey together, it was also the first time I had a photo of myself taken with a turtle.
Me and Konnington
Me and Joelle
Wednesday was Maisy's day off and I didn't realise. I am so used to Maisy being first one up I stayed in bed until 10 when I finally checked the time and jumped out of bed. I had a day full of computer work, I was sat for 6 hours review the last of the underwater data. I was checking photos to make sure they were the correct turtle and there was only maximum 3 photos in each folder. Yesterday was a much better day. In the evening we went to Tuna Bay to Coco Hut for dinner as it was Ainns 26th Birthday. I spent too much money, the taxi was 15RM return, then I had a beer with my meal which was 11RM, tuna friend rice 13RM and then got tempted by a king tiger prawn at the fish stall which was 18RM but was so tasty.
The gang- Some of Turtle Team and Community Project
Fresh Fish Stall (Too expensive!)
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