Sorry for late posting... i had just finish my elective programme at terengganu where i spent 2 weeks living a 'primitive' lifestyle without the wonders of electricity! therefore, i had no access to the net and subsequently unable to post.
The whole experience is wonderful! For the 1st 5 days, i went to a beach in Redang Island named Mak Kepit which is a turtle sanctuary. There, me and my friends had to cook our own meals, and helped the workers there to patrol at night. Every night, there's about 2 to 3 turtles that would come ashore to lay eggs.. our job includes tag the turtle for identification, detect any abnormalities of the mother turtle and also measure the diameters of the turtle eggs...
The sight of the mother turtles laying eggs is eye-opening! the whole process will take about 3 to 4 hours where most of the time will be used in finding the perfect spot and hole-digging! the actual process of egg-laying will only take about 30 minutes! Then, the mother had to cover the hole and make its way back into the ocean. It's a really tough process.
During daytime, we are free as there's nothing much to do, most of our job was done at night. So, we went snorkelling everyday in the afternoon just in front of the beach!
The people there treat us very well and we formed strong bonds... and we really feel relunctant to leave the beach when the day comes...
then, we were assigned to another area named Ma' Daerah which is another turtle sanctuary. We joined in their Weekend Programme and had a lot of fun with the participants. And what luck! We got to see turtle hatchlings emerge from their nest and had the oppurtunity to free the hatchlings into the ocean!!!
The little hatchlings are soooooo cute!!!
I am really glad i had chosen this topic as my elective studies..! The experience is priceless.
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