Monday, September 10, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
Sea Turtle Research Unit (SEATRU) by UMT
Chagar Hutang Beach at Redang Island
A mission on a beautiful beach.
Simple quarters and gallery are built.
We were counting stars at mid night while waiting for the landing of sea turtles.
Sea turtles like to lay eggs at mid night with minimum disturb.
The egg is as big as table tennis.
We got to remove the all the eggs if the laying location is not safe such as having roots and red ants.
We were lucky enough as there was a mother sea turtle landed in the early morning. So, we could witness the whold process of laying eggs clearly.
She always took a big breath when laying eggs.
We got to measure the size of sea turtle when she had finished laying eggs.
We then took a photo with her before she covered the nest.
She covered the nest with her strong flippers.
Bye! The tired mother went back into the sea after long hours of laying eggs process. It could be 2 hours.
Other than night duty, we got to do day time patrol under the hot sun as well.
Straw hat could block a little bit of hot sun. haha!
We got to write down the nest data including nest number, turtle tag number and laying date on the wooden sticks to identify the different nests.
Sometimes, I signed my name as well. Hehe!
Measuring the distance between nest and plants or trees.
Monitor lizard is one of the natural predators of sea turtles. We got to get them out of nest area during day time patrol.
If the nest is attacked by lizard, ants or crab, we got to replace the nest at safer location with netlon mesh protection.
Some time after the date of laying eggs, we got to check the maturity of the eggs.
This nest was matured. Probably the baby sea turtles would go back to their home (sea) at night.
We prayed hard that the baby shark would not attack the baby sea turtles.
Sometime, the baby sea turtles will be taken for research or education purpose before releasing them into the sea.
The Chagar Hutang Beach is really a beautiful place.
We could be very relaxing by reading book or napping under the trees.
What was she playing with?
She was playing with hermit crab. So cute!
How about these guys?
Oh my god! They were enjoying prawn spa!
We went for jungle trekking.
Rock climbing? haha! It is too beautiful.
Funny group memebers.
We made a letter/message box (Penyu Box) as a souvenir to SEATRU.
Thank you SEATRU! Your contribution to the sea turtles as well as the earth is very much appreciated and recognised.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Thursday, July 5, 2012
KS & Juliet's R.O.Memories @ 23.6.2012
A ROM at garden, memories for all. May you have a blissful and fruitful life. Congratulation to you, Kwong Seng & Juliet.
Friday, April 6, 2012
UNESCO World Heritage Mount Kinabalu
The sunset.
Before we saw the nice sunset, we were passing through a beautiful rain forest.
It is a tough but beautiful journey.
We will have water supply along the way to the top.
Dewdrop.
Mini water fall.
Squirrels will come to you if u feed them.
We may not see this at low land.
Fern leaf.
A big monkey cup.
It was a surprised for me to see a raspberry.
The blue sky above Mount Kinabalu.
He carried 55kg!!
"Don't give up! Our first day stop is just 2km away!"
Averagely, we can rest every 1km.
The higher the mountain is, the lesser the green leave can be seen.
No pain no gain. We will be able to see the beauty of the high mountain after we have run through all the challenges.
Playing sepak takraw at sea level 3,000m above must be very interesting.
Somewhere very near to the summit.
Some climbers come down from the top via Ferrata.
Nice one.
We had a short rest here before we continued journey to the summit at 2am.
Mount Kinabalu.
For our Earth, for our family, for our friends and for our loved one, please take nothing but photographs from our nature, please leave nothing but footprints to our nature, please keep nothing but memories from our lovely nature.
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