| This entry is part of the week we spent volunteering at La Tortuga Feliz (a turtle conservation project), near Bataan, Costa Rica. |
Writing under the solar powered light at the main hacienda
Took dinner over to Carrie who is guarding at the school. Stupid cat wouldn’t leave us alone – kept jumping up on the table and on us trying to eat our food. Finally resorted to feeding it from the cat food supply here at the school, which gave us about 3 minutes to eat in peace, until it came back, apparently finished that quickly with everything I gave it. It is nursing 4 kittens at the moment, so no surprise that it’s so persistent, but I guess the food I gave it must have eased it’s hunger, because even though it’s hovering, it’s staying away at the required distance of the unopened umbrella and my arm.
We also heard a loud and growing thud, thud, thud, thud, so Carrie went to check it out.
It turned out to be a jet ski coming by in the ocean, going thud, thud, thud, with each slap back down on a wave. It’s not something I would have taken notice of in a less remote setting, and as much as I enjoy wave runners every time I’m on one, it seems very out of place here.
| This entry is part of the week we spent volunteering at La Tortuga Feliz (a turtle conservation project), near Bataan, Costa Rica. La Tortuga Feliz is an ecovolunteering program where the money paid by volunteers provides an experience with protecting turtles from poaching and taking part in new turtle life (hatching new turtles, measuring them, and releasing them into the ocean). Income from volunteers (which is minimal, considering what it goes to take care of) supports a community which has depended on turtles as a way of life for hundreds of years. This wouldn’t be a problem (eating and selling turtle meat and eggs), except that the species of turtles which are being poached are all on the brink of extinction. We spent 7 days at La Tortuga Feliz and have shared our experience here (in case you’d perhaps like to volunteer, and/or) in case you’re researching things you might want to know before going to La Tortuga Feliz. This journal was written on paper and later transferred to typed text to post on the site. If you want to see all of our pictures (over 300 from La Tortuga Feliz), visit our pictures page. |