My Island Life

At hour 2300, 12th August 2007, the August volunteers are doing their usual round on the beach to look out for turtle landing, they stumble upon some little movement on the beach, and they realized that the movement were little turtle hatchlings! So everyone on the resort turn off all lights and comb the beach for signs of other hatchlings. Later they found 15 little ones fell into a hole that were made by sand castle builder during the day, all resort guest, staff, and volunteers rescue the babies by digging a channel for them to move to the sea. Dim torchlight with red filters were used to guide/lure the babies towards the sea.

There were no moon last night, tide was rather low, the babies all swim with high speed as soon as they hit the water. The babies were all left to complete the beach imprinting walk by themselves, some volunteers were having tug-a-war with crabs which were grabbing the babies along the way. Total known babies that made it to the sea were 16. The others might found its way to the sea before we found them. So good luck our babies!

Thanks again to the ex-volunteers for job well done in keeping the nest safe! Congratulation on the babies! Sorry that we can't find which nest it hatched from, it was impossible to trace! No picture were taken, it was a very dark night!

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