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This weekend I thought I should do some more volunteering…haven’t done something good in a while I went to Karpaz in North Cyprus to help some other volunteers with some projects they are working on, trying to increase the population of sea turtles.

I must say it was something wonderful, just a small summary of what we did:

Friday 22nd August 2008
At 6pm we went down to this beach to dig down a nest. Only 1 hatched turtle was found. The rest of the eggs were deep in the sand and the water has reached them, which I’ve learnt that it is not good, so some time soon we had to move the eggs out of this nest and place them in another nest.

Saturday 23rd August 2008
At 6am we went down to the beach to dig another nest. We found around 12 turtles alive, most of them who hatched early so they had still some things attached to them. Still we picked them and kept them safe for 1 day until their belly thingy closes up. We found also another 30 eggs which were open, which means these turtles went out of the nest on their own. From the footprints we found, some of them survived, some of them didn’t as because of light pollution they take a wrong direction and usually are killed from other animals. We took the sea turtles back to where we are camped, measured them etc.

At 6pm we started digging the nest we opened yesterday, made a new nest and moved 177 eggs from one nest to the other. It took us around 1.5 hours to complete this process.

Sunday 24th August 2008
Wake up again at 6am and went to another beach and opened a nest where 57 sea turtles starting coming out of their own. Took them back to the camping site, measured them and we released them to the sea with other turtles and swam a little bit with them to make sure they head out of the beach..

Well guys, I can assure you it was a fantastic experience! Hopefully next year I should go for some longer time, anyone interested!!

Well whoever reads this post, anyone interested to go directly can call Hasan on 0090 533 8641063.

Enjoy