The turtle nest

For over 2 weeks now we have, as I told you, been going down to the turtle nest every night to check if they have hatched. The first possible day they could have hatched was by the full moon last week. There had been no obvious activity in the nest, and we were all starting to loose hope. Either that it was a "falce" nest, or that the storms we have had killed them, and since they were so overdue, the guys from the Seabird Rescue Sentre desided to dig up the nest this morning. We started very carful to dig up the sand where they thought the eggs would be, but there was no sign of anything. We started to dig at the other end, and still not a sign of a single turtle. As we all were starting to loose all hope, and feeling a bit silly for garding a nest with nothing in it, we found an empty egg, not a dead one, but one that had hatched!!! Seconds later, we saw not only one, but all together about 70 teeny weeny sea turtles leying in the sand just waiting to get to the surf!!

This was an amazing moment in my life that I will remember for ever. They were so small and strong, and so eeger and determent to get down to the water. There were still quite a few eggs that didn't hatch yet, so we covered the nest back up and wait for more to come :)




All together there will be between 100 and 200 turtle eggs in that nest. The amazing thing is that in 30 years from now, the females will return to the exact same beach to lay their eggs. There are recordings of turtles that have travelled as far as from Australia to Canada and then back again to make a nest!





Of those 200 from a nest, sadly only 1 make it back to the beach. Most of the guys at the Rescue scentre work on a voulantere basis, and sadly they are not provided enough money to rescue all the Sea animals that need to be saved.
To make an effort to rescue more of those creatures, I have started to bake super nice chocolate muffins, and I sell them at the reception in the hostell, the bussines is going good! :)

This afternoon things just keept on getting better. More than a month ago, I managed by accident to delite all the music on my iPod. For those of you know me, will understand that that was very hard for me. I thought I would be fine by just syncing my iPod with a friend of mines music, but it just wasn't the same. so a few weeks ago I desided to send it back to Norway so it could be synced with my computer at home and then have my mum to send it back to me in Australia (haha) so today i actually got it back and I'm so happy happy!! My super nice little brother, Bernard, had even put photos of my family on it as a supprize. Thank you so much!


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I shot this photo a coupple days ago, just want to share it with you. The sunrises here, are magic.

One more thing, Julias birthday festival started last thursday
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