Turtle Patrol and volunteering with Project Biodiversity .
Living on Sal has given me some amazing opportunities and one that I will always cherish is working with Project Biodiversity and the Turtle project
As you will have already noticed a theme with Turtles – Beach – Beach Cleans and also working with friends on the bird conservation ( pictures to follow )
Spending 10 yrs in Sal and 8yrs protecting the beaches from poachers and protecting the Loggerhead turtles.
Our experiance ranges from night patrols walks 8pm -2am and at Serra Negra 1am- 6am ish having seen and sat with more than 800 female Loggerheads nesting on the beaches of Sal it has to be a major highlight in anyone’s life .
Morning turtles – hatchlings -excavating nests and watching hatchling arriving into the world are all but some of the experience’s
Below are just some of the fond memories
Turtle tracks on Bay 4 Serra Negra . This was a 1am-6am shift and obviously a lot of tracks to record and possibly re locate.
This is a turtle that nested this is the up track with the down on the left. The nest was relocated to a beach that would not wash the eggs away.
Hatchling time ! releasing babies early morning back into the sea for them hopefully to return possibly 18-20 years later..
