Another busy week

Its been another busy week!We met Johanna from Wildlife Vets International who spent a day with us giving lectures on turtle and terrapin health and treatment. She inspected our tanks and also gave a health check to our four resident terrapins. We are very happy to report they were all given the all clear. Johanna will now spend a few days on the other islands and will return to us again briefly next week for some final training before returning to the UK.

Vet Johanna - checking the health of the terrapins

 Work continues both in and outside the centre at a rapid pace. This week the hotel maintenance team have been busy leveling the area for the tanks and installing the electricity needed to run the pumps and filters. Inside, the painting continues. The first batch of our posters was also collected from the printers. These will be displayed in the centre with lots of information about the animals that can be seen in the wetland and the work that we are doing.

Hotel workers organising the tanks

Beach wall

Wetland wall

Beach patrols have been continuing and we are happy to report more nests successfully hatching and yet another turtle came up to lay. One lucky family staying in a beach villa was there to watch as the turtle laid her eggs and then returned to the sea.  While waiting for her to complete her nesting, Rachel was answering all sorts of questions from the whole family.

Rachel with the lucky family who had the turtle nest outside their villa

Nesting sunbird

Other happenings in Intendance, we spotted an unusual visitor this week. A duck has been making use of the ponds around the hotel, we are trying to identify what species it is. We also have a lot of Sunbird nests at the moment and many Moorhen chicks running around. 

Visiting duck

Stay tuned for the next Centre update...