Sighting: 1 Green Turtle at Telaga Papan (By Sharon, Sijie and Jason.) This is the first time in 3 years that our advisor Sijie has seen the turtle during the beach patrol. Congrats SJ!!!
Hatchery Painting
We had Shawn, Gladys and Hamida at the hatchery at Penarik Inn to start painting the hut. A new blue and white coat of paint has made the hatchery hut look better than before!!! Of course, with the help of Azam, one of the WWF staff, the team managed to finish the painting pretty quickly :)
Painting house 1
The painting started off after lunch when the rest of the team was deployed to the location to continue from where we left out on Monday. Under the company of the children from the neighboring houses, the environment was kept very lively and some of us even started singing to keep everyone entertained! We even arranged a K-Box session after the trip!
Storm before dinner
The weather suddenly changed for the worse while on our way back to the Pink House. We experienced strong winds and rain that attempted to flood the front of the Pink House. Luckily the water went under the house and into the sand. When we found that Shawn and Gladys are still not back from the hatchery, we “choose” Jian Hui to cycle towards the hatchery to look for them. Halfway through the journey, he turned back and below are his comments:” When I am halfway there, I saw that whatever in front of me was black. I was thinking if I should continue to go ahead.. hahaha” We were finally relieved when all our members returned safely :)
Visitors from the West
During dinner, we had 3 Caucasians joining us at Kak Ta’s place. We had Daniel, who is currently doing a conservation project in Pulau Perhantian, Mike, a masters research student from South England and Nicole Rose, a volunteer from California, US. During the conversation with them, we found that Daniel has been working on the project for about 6 years and he works with students from Alan Smith School to provide weekly English lessons, as well as create awareness for conservation of the environment. Nicole is a middle school Mathematics teacher in the States. Something interesting about her is that she volunteers herself in overseas projects every summer. Teachers in Singapore, time to consider doing so!!!
Day 7 has been a very eventful day, not forgetting Sharon, who has been our main source of entertainment so far. Stay tuned to our blog for more updates :):)
Signed off,
Jason (Jayturtle)
