27th of June – 1st of July
Monday
Nothing special happened in the morning, the tanks and the
centre got cleaned and chichi got his food. Eden had no food over the whole
weekend but he is still not eating on his own. But I think he is trying more
often to dive now unfortunately he still got air in his body so he is not able
to stay under water and it costs him a huge effort to dive down.
In the afternoon Vanessa went with Imogen and me to the
beaches to profile them. We profiled almost all of them, only a few points at
Grand Police were left for an other day during the week. While driving we
always have an eye on the garbage on the side of the road and collect as much
as possible, special bottles and cans.
Tuesday
The vet told us to start to feed Eden in a different
pattern, from now on we feed him one day, then one day of no food, next day we
will feed him again and after the third day he does not get food for two days
and then the circle starts from the beginning again.
In the late morning the bird survey was made again. Not many
birds were around, what was a little bit strange, as the weather was very
stormy and wet the last few days. What would mean that all the worms and insect
are at the surface.
Thursday
On Thursday I was not in the south working, I helped Sara on
Cerf to do the cleaning of the coral nursery grounds. We had very good
visibility and we were done with the monitoring and the cleaning after little
less than a half an hour. Unfortunately, almost all corals died already, only
35 are left. After the job was done we also enjoyed the reef a little bit. A
big group of glassfish was around which was very nice.
After a nice lunch we went out again to do the monitoring of
the corals but the cameras both were out of batteries and so we could not
finish it.
We returned to the office around 3pm and Sara typed in the
data of the day into the computer. Margoux also spotted a turtle earlier during
the day. She took pictures of it and these pictures were added to a program,
which helps to identify them. The turtle was never spotted before. I took the
4:15pm ferry back to Mahe.
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| Sitting in the middle of the big track! |
Friday
A very exciting day today! While finishing the beach
profiling with Vanessa at Grand Police Bay we spotted a fresh turtle nest from
a very big big green turtle. The nest must be younger than 24h. We could see
that the turtle dug at different places at the same spot and there was an other
whole 20m down the beach but this one looked empty. As a very high tide
probably could reach the nest, Vanessa decided to relocate the eggs. The plan
was to bring them to a save place at Intendance beach. Full of motivation we
went to the beach again and were looking for the eggs. Unfortunately or luckily
(that is the question now), we could not find them. Mama turtle did a very good
job and hopefully nobody or nothing else will find them. In the end we had to
close our big holes again and we marked the area. Sometimes you can not beat
the nature….
More than half of the day was already over, when we returned
to the office. After lunch Vanessa and Imogen cleaned all the bottles we
collected during the last few days. All the money which we get for the empty
bottles goes to MCSS, even when it is not super much it still helps.
A few barnacles were attached to some bottles, Vanessa
putted them into Eden’s tank and he tried to take a bite of them once. But
again, in the end he did not eat them. So we had to force feed him again in the
afternoon.
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| Trying to find the well hidden egg clutch! |
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