11/07/2013 - Island Life
As our second week has flown by, we no
longer feel it necessary to wear shoes. It’s been a hectic week, with Zach the
scholar leaving us, ‘extreme’ tweets, and a new tortoise!
Friday was Zach’s last night on the island.
The day started with a beautiful walk to Badamier where we checked for turtle
tracks, we didn’t find anything but had a great time swimming in the crystal
clear sea and relaxing on the beach.
On our return we challenged the
‘undefeated’ staff to a volley ball match. Although the first game was an
embarrassment to the volunteers, due to the introduction of Pat the 6”6 giant,
the tables turned in the second game. At one point it was 9-2 to the
volunteers, and despite a brave fight from the staff, we beat them! We followed
up a great start to the night with a BBQ cooked by Nate, which we washed down
with a few Seybrew’s, the local beer in the Seychelles. Zach and I then started
to play some music. Zach played the guitar and sang, whilst I improvised with saucepans
and bowls to make a drum kit.
After a great send off for Zach, all the
volunteers jumped on the boat named Dexter, to take a trip to Paradise (The
hotel with free Wi-Fi!). We all had a fry up which went down a treat, then
lounged around the pool all day catching up with friends, family and of course
watched the final Lions test!
On Monday morning Pat took a group out for
a tweet when we stumbled across an untagged 36cm long tortoise far away from
any other tortoises. This was a great find as a Pat had never seen a tortoise
that high up on Curieuse.
Despite the weather not being too kind to
us this week (made worse with the news of a heat wave back home in England!),
we didn’t let it stop us. Extreme tweets were invented by Noel when she took a
group out to look for sea birds. With the rain absolutely pouring down as they
tried to get to each bird watching point, they were slipping and sliding
everywhere!
We’ve had some really great times
snorkelling around the Island too, with so many stunning fish and intriguing
coral, but only a few of the team have seen a turtle, making us all even more
eager to get in the sea and find one!
Jon Leighton
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