August 2011
28 posts
Hayley: Holla from the Matala Girls
On the turtle front everything’s going great everyone on camp has now whitnessed baby hatchlings .Me and Sara were lucky enough to see a nest hatch 7 baby hatchlings which we helped to sea. We have also mastered the art of excavations …the smell is pretty gross:\
Sara broke the kiosk record making a 121 Euro and received a bottle of Raki Aka Chunder dragon juice for her efforts:) All...
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Jakki: busy, busy, busy!
Jakki: the last week has been incredibly busy here at the Rethymno camp and beaches. We’ve seen lots of volunteers reach the end of their stay and fewer new ones to replace them so we’ve had plenty of shifts and trained the new people. The hatchlings are becoming a regular morning delight when we patrol at sunrise! In the afternoons we are now excavating the nests that are over 62 days...
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Turtles!: i have been here two weeks and:today i... →
rach-shell:
i have been here two weeks and:
today i saw an excavation
today i broke the 2pm-6pm kiosk takings record! (115.75 euro)
i’ve said goodbye to loads of ace people
i’ve gotten used to living in a tent
i was robbed and am currently without a mobile (a rubbish handset though), ipod (120gb WAH)…
Jakki: back on track ...
After a week off the beaches i am now back on morning surveys … I can’t wait to see my first hatchlings! So good to see the sunrise over the sea again. My work has been limited to camp duties and public awareness in hotels and.kiosk while I’ve been ill - very important work but going on stage to talk after the.kids mini discos is just a nightmare!
Jakki: excavations
This evening we have the first excavation of a nest. We do this 10 days after the first hatchling appeared to check how many eggs were laid in total, recording how many hatched, how many were deformed or diseased and how many were unhatched. Often there will be healthy hatchlings at the bottom that can’t push their way up through the 100+ eggshells and we help them to the sea - we’ve...
Jakki: mega pleased with myself today!
Jakki: somehow I’ve always managed to avoid driving left hand drive cos it scares me silly but today I DID IT! Personal achievement number 1 done. Next one is to hold a cicada in my hand, gross! made 45€ at kiosk last night which is good, slideshow at a new hotel tonight where we need to make a good impression … I’m going to try really really hard …. Its in a posh spa and...
Yassas!
Matala here again, good news we saved two hatchlings from a falcon… he wanted to eat them and we fended him off with a stick! quite literally! when we went back to put the nest shades up we saw two more emerging, they also made it to the sea!
On the PA front Horn made 40euros on K1, we are smashing last years sales!
WOuld upload photos but cant. sorry. use your...
July 2011
46 posts
Jakki: K4 ....again
Jakki Back on kiosk duty shift 4 7-10pm again. Not my favourite duty and i feel like I’m currently on night shifts with my rota’d duties at the moment. It was really great tho tonight to have lots of Greek tourists (and a few cretan locals) who wanted information about the turtles and our work. Its such a shame that more is not done to educate people about the wonders of nature...
