Hatchery Update

Still using Matt's PRETOMA sign from last year

So the final decision has been to cut the hatchery in half. No I am not stoked on it, but oh well it is what it is and I would rather get nests into it sooner rather than later (maybe expand later on if there is time to). Luckily though, I have had Shane here for the past week and he has been so much help! Well maybe too much help, we had almost all the sand filled in the last trench and just needed to level it out so the hatchery would be about 10 CM above ground level. The almond wood Courtney and Victor found last year for the posts are really heavy though so he has been awesome at helping to move them around the hatchery to reconstruct a wall. One of the reasons I'm alright with the size is that we are only filling the hatchery until mid October this year. The deal is that all the walls and posts need to be taken down before we leave (and the project is set to close December 10th).

The front of the Costa de Oro hatchery

Update: Okay so this still has not been posted, mostly due to lack of internet and I wanted to get pictures of the hatchery. However, the hatchery has been finished before I got pictures of the process of building it (whoops, guess thats what happens when it starts raining every night after we work on it).

I was able to fit in 12 rows and 7 collums, which will give us 84 nests to work with. Hopefully This will be plenty and there will not need to be to much nest relocation until middle of October.

We just need to fill in the emptiness with the dirt that was removed from the area before and take down the old green netting from the remaining posts that are not being used this year. After we get the trench filled in, we will be moving the dirt that was removed from that area last year down to the beach.

 

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