9/29/12

Nightly Patrols

So I thought about posting pictures from our exhumation the other day but thought better of it. They're kind of gross. So I'll keep them in a special folder on my iPad and iPhone for when I get home and I can show you if you want.

A lot of people are probably wondering what our day to day like activity is like and well we rest a lot during the day. It gets to be pretty hot outside by 8 am, I think usually around 32 C but I could be wrong. But we spend most of our time working in the very late night or very early morning, really depends on what tides are doing. Turtles come up to nest only when it is dark out and usually the babies hatch at night, though we do have exceptions which makes it hard for us to really travel far from the house during the day when we need to check the hatchery.

This morning was no exception to our early mornings, we were up and patrolling at 3 am and bringing babies down the water too. Unfortunately, we went at the wrong side of the tide, turtles came up last night and they had all been poached. We go to bed early when we know that we have to do early morning patrols, so we were in bed by 8 last night, Courtney did the first hatchery check and had to release some babies. I did the second hatchery check at 10:30, I didn't find any babies but I did find Andre in one of our hammocks. Mom and dad, you probably know Andre as Michael's brother, he has started patrolling with us, though we never really know when he is going to show up. It was nice he came though because while we patrolled the north side of the beach and found nothing Courtney and our British volunteer Izzy found 1 nest to bring back to our hatchery!

And of course we had more babies waiting to swim out to sea when we got back!

5 comments:

  1. What s an exhumation? Sounds morbid. Your schedule sounds brutal. Worse than morning workout!

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    1. It's when we dig up the nests and go through all the eggs to see why they didnt hatch bad what stage they were at.

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    2. that sounds awful

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  2. Sounds interesting and pretty cool! Vampire hours....Glad you are getting help with some of the locals. We were just talking to Tom this morning about how he's going to get to see so many babies. Carol and I are super jelly.... Let me know what else you want us to send down with him. XO!!! --- mom

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