Turtles and school tours

Today started with sieving any debris from the top of the tanks ,to ensure the tanks stayed clean .we also buried more hatchlings .. Tours today were mainly busloads of excited children and it was lovely to see just how excited they were.
It's important here that the children appreciate the turtles as there is a poaching problem where eggs are stolen and then sold to restaurants..to make turtle soup..So the turtle project pay slightly more, per egg to people who bring them in ,to try to reduce the poaching problem
I took the opportunity to go out and checkout the inside of the bus they'd come in.
Today its been raining so that hindered our actions, but when it stopped we had the unpleasant task of digging into the used / hatch holes to retrieve any shells and possibly any turtles that hadn't made it to the surface
I got utterly covered in sand
I was spared some of this task by being told to go and teach English to 2 children...one age 12 the other age 6 ...tricky as 2 different levels , very limited resources ,no indication what's required, so winging it ...big style ! I had the 12yr old reading Mr messy ! And then writing some English...trying to correct annunciation of the word Week to not sound like Veek was interesting!..the 6yr old is super bright ,knowing all English alphabet and numbers to 20 in English and just wants to do colouring !🤣🤦‍♀️
This evening we released another batch of one day old turtles 🐢 and another 6 families paid to be able to do so as well.

Tonight iv been given the opportunity to see the mother turtles lay their eggs but it could be at anytime during the night and I still remember seeing it in Borneo on turtle island with Matthew 20yrs ago so although initially I said Id go Ive decided to give it a miss.Read more