Intendance Beach Blog – 1st Week
of November, 2015-11-06
This working week was relatively shorter
with the Public Holiday Monday, however, our sea turtles have kept the momentum
as we now enter into the peak nesting season. Tuesday proved to be quite interesting.
The Centre welcomed a couple, Emile and Julia, hailing from Milan who happens
to have honeymooned in our islands seven years prior. They have opted to mix
business with pleasure as the husband assists us with our ‘drone problem’.
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| drone operation! |
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| nesting turtle |
His wife, Julia, proved to be very helpful
as I monitored my fourth nesting turtle on Intendance beach. She
enthusiastically assisted me through the different stages as we interacted with
the tourists on the beach and took the turtle’s measurements and identification
photos, while noting all the information down on the Trimble. Since the turtle
had her mind set on nesting all the way under the vegetation by the famous Rhum
Shack, these tasks proved to be quite arduous.
Thursday brought a surprise patient into
one of our tanks at the centre. A kind soul had dropped a new terrapin off.
We’ve since named her Chunk because of the noticeably large chunk of shell
missing off her carapace, more precisely on the left hind sight. Chunk has now
joined the Centre’s baby, Project, and our ever-so guarded Hiccup, who is still
refusing to sample our gourmet manufactured reptiles food.
As the week comes to a close, we are yet to
strike lucky on our traps that we are placing in different sites in the
wetland. We are in serious need of our lucky charm, the witty Mary, who is due
back this weekend. Can’t wait to have her back on the team!
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