SEATRU - Day 4

May 6, 2008

So this is what you'll wake up seeing ;p Gorgeous beach that we have! Haha!

So today we were left all by ourselves at the site, cause all the staff had something to do in the city. And Adi especially reminded me to keep us all away frm having fun in the sea, since most of us couldn't swim.

And JiaXing volunteered to cook for us. He took 2 hours to decide what to cook, and changed his mind at the very last moment, yet again. So women aint the only undecisive creature on earth apparently. Though the rice dough looked pretty, weird, it tasted alright, seriously. I thought the rice was decent, except for the fact that it looked like paste. Haha ;p
I got to read for a fair bit, listen to music, and I thought I should be more friendly ;) So we played card games. Really, I missed all those card  games. We literally played over hundreds games throughout. We nearly broke the cards into 2 ;p We played Lami, Chor Dai Tee, Bluff, Bridge, etc. So what's the one thing that you must bring if you're joining SEATRU? Cards. A few sets of cards ;p Chinese chess was one of the games that kept us occupied.

This is Pokemon. The cutest squirrel I've ever seen. It's so adorable and it eats a lot. Somehow I thought it looks like a mouse instead of squirrel. Look at the tail, it's so beautiful ^^
The diamond ;) So gorgeously shining all day long. I especially loved it here because we had plenty of time to do our own stuff. Many of times, living in city keeps us so busy, and we hardly have any time to do things that we love. Like I said before, we often forget to slow down the pace to enjoy the beauty that surrounds us.
So, this is what you've got to do to the new nests. We have to measure the distance from the 2 sectors that bind the nest, and the distance frm the nearest plantation (aka any tree/leaf). I still dont understand why do we need the measurement for the plantation ;p Anyways, after we've recorded the measurement, we'll mark on the stick-

"nest no. | dd-mm-yy | mother's left tag | mother's right tag "

That's the format if I'm not mistaken. So as you can see each turtle has got 2 tags, on their left and right flipper. The tags will help the researchers identify the identity of the turtles.

This is the good work done by the monitor lizard. Monitor lizards could smell it if  there are eggs around. So they can easily dig down under, to reach for the yummy-eggs.
The mother turtle's track. They are huge, and heave. So they move really slowly. The whole process of them laying the egg, frm the moment they land the beach to the moment they go back to the sea, it takes more than 2 hours. Amazingly patient huh, turtles.

This amazes me. It's the forecast released by some governmental department- the height and time of high and low tights, for everyday. And the readings were pretty accurate, apparently.