Day 89-91- Last Time at Tiga Ruang

Due to my visa error I wasn't staying at Tiga Ruang until Thursday, instead going back to the village on Monday. There was discussion about closing Tiga Ruang while me and Ramona are away on Visa Run so this would be my last time on the nesting beach. This meant that it would be my last time to capture me in this beautiful landscape. I had a lot of fun messing about with my self timer on my camera taking various photos around the beach. I also took some of Maisy and while we were taking photos the group of monkeys came around camp and we watched them for a bit. There was one juvenile who was half orange and half black/grey. The rest of the day was very chilled, some reading, watching films and a nap. Once all the tourists had left the beach and it was a bit cooler I set myself the challenge of running a 5km. Tiga Ruang is around 300m so I did 9 laps up and down the beach and timed myself. Before coming out to Malaysia I had done a 5km run in my hometown in 24 minutes so was curious to see how I compared. It turned out I had got slower completing my beach 5km in 27 minutes however, this was on sand and bare foot. The real test will be when I return to the UK.

 

Monday morning I got packed up and waited for Joju. Maisy had asked him to come at 11 and in true Joju fashion he turned up at 10:30. I got back and no one was in yet. Dan was out with the volunteers and Ramona was at Blue temple. I made myself some lunch and began data analysis of Dan and the volunteers surveys while I had been away. Dan did a survey at Pitani Friday afternoon with two of the volunteers and Lenny, normally at PIR we are lucky to see a turtle and if we do we have only seen a juvenile and a female green. Dan managed to see and get photos of an adult male Green and a Hawksbill which is amazing. The volunteers who have been here 2 weeks have seen more Hawksbills than I have.

The next day was a very boring one 6 hours looking at nesting turtle photos. We had 27 nesting turtles this year and I had to check to see if they were returners or new compared to our database. I had already done a few but needed to get as many done as possible as I am diving tomorrow and off on visa run Thursday. I managed to get 7 done leaving only 6 left to finish it off. In the evening I could hear Ramona watching a film and she was laughing a lot. I asked her what it was she said Last Vegas I didn't know it but she gave me it to watch in Kota Bharu. Ramona has also been great at keeping me in the loop with staff information as I am still without a phone. I am so excited to finish my advanced diving course tomorrow.