One of their many stops was with Zulu Five at Playa Camoronal on the Peninsula De Nicoya. So what have Zulu Five been getting up to?
Zulu Five perching on some driftwood
Aside from patrolling the beach at night for Olive Ridley Turtles, they've been busy by day keeping the beach in pristine condition by removing litter and driftwood.
Litter picking: Keeping the beach in pristine condition takes some dedication
Zulu Five's other pet project is to build a new turtle hatchery. From the photos, having a few extra pairs of hands to lift the logs into position was just what Zulu Five needed.
Elizabeth supervises as Sarah and Caroline take the strain
All hands on deck - collecting wood for the new turtle hatchery
PM Ale adjusting the corner post for the new hatchery
Lucy Benville Zulu 1
ReplyDeleteHi luc,
less then 5 days and you will have completed your trek carn't belive this time next week I'll be seeing you, sooo very excited.
Its hard to belive that you'll have done 300k trek in a few weeks! such a massive achievement. keep it up you must nearly be back to base camp with all its luxuarys.
Week to go CAN NOT WAIT.
Lots of love Russ
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Luke Sussams - Zulu 1
ReplyDeleteKeep going love - so proud of you! Enough said! Selling Costa Rica like you wouldn't believe! Mum xxxxxxxxxxx
To Kris Stafford in Zulu 2:
ReplyDeleteHey Gangletron,
I was out in Manchester the other night when Calvin Harris came on and stopped me in my tracks. I instantly tried to send you the neediest message ever written about missing you so much and looking forward to hearing your awesome banter! I am sure your happy to hear that I am not this needy for you when not inebriated although I wish to convey an acceptably dilute message with this sentiment.
I hope you've been working hard on your bicpes and lats as were planning an epic punting trip for Bath, with you being the key punter (for obvious reasons we can't let George drive unless we fancy going for a swim!).
George has tried to organise a weekend in London for us al this week- needless to say, his outstanding organisational skills mean its jsut going to me and him sharing a beer on Saturday night...
Not long to go now but hope your having an awesome time! Looking forward to seeing you and your gangletrons.
Lots of love,
Curly
Hannah Johns Zulu 3
ReplyDeleteHi Hannah
I keep looking at the photos on the blog and wondering how you're doing, it looks amazing - especially the rope bridge which looked very scary! Already thinking ahead to next week and what your favourite meal will be when you get home!
Enjoy the rest on the beach when you get there, it will be a fantastic feeling to have finished the trek I'm sure.
Dad says can't wait to see you and we all send lots of hugs - keep going, you're nearly there!
Lots of love
Mum, Dad and Becky
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ReplyDeletehello betty sheeps,
the zulu cheif of five, obviously
ha ha,
found you, looks very good, we all make a lot of sence out of seeing the photographs and we see you found a tree, nice, very, woody, soo hard to actually understand how different life must be, but we are probably feeling it, anyhoo, you still have a week which is about half of what most peeps get a year, so get stuck into those turtles, and watch your fingers, snappers are snappers, I am having four stiches out of my thunb tomoz, lion taming ain't what it used to be either, wish I'd had my hat and chair!
earnshaw
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Zulu 5 Caroline Bixner
ReplyDeleteHi Caroline,
das sieht ja toll aus - Du bist ja richtig urlaubsgebräunt wenn man Schildkröten betreut. Dein Aufenthalt geht schon dem Ende zu und ich freue mich, wenn Du gut zurück bist und dann mal auch Fotos schicken kannst. Hast Du nette Freunde kennengelernt? alles Liebe Tante Susi
zulu 1 samantha malvern
ReplyDeleteyo dude, how goes the walking? putting the walking to malvern in perspective?? :P same old here, job interviews and applications. fun stuff!! but playing more golf which is fun. though it is not fun cause i am playing naaaaaafff. ah well!! i shall sort it. but other than that, everything is similar here. hope all is good with you, keep smilin x x
Clare Davey Zulu 1
ReplyDeleteHi Clare,
Not long now and then we'll see each other again, it feels like its been years since you went. You must be looking foward to relaxing after your trek, im so proud of you babe! I look foward to speaking to you when your back at base camp.
Love you Ben
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Veronie Havens Zulu 7.
ReplyDeleteI guess that you are on your way back to Field Base from Nicaragua. Bet there was a great party after the water switch on. Enjoy the next couple of weeks in Central America.
Mummy had a great birthday, loved your flowers and her new Mini.Went for lunch at the Boatyard and then the house was invaded by her chums!Drank a large fizzy toast to you.
She is off to Barcelona this weekend with the girls, just realisesd that Real Madrid are playing Barcelona so could be quite a lot going on!
I am off golfing with the Head and Lano to La Manga the week before you get back. Mike goes back to Reading to drink sorry I mean study for his finals Saturday.
Hope you are keeping well, looking forward to hearing all your stories. Call us when you can, all our love as always, Mumx Dadx and Michaelx
Roisin McMillan Zulu 4
ReplyDeleteDear Roisin, we are so excited about you coming home, hoorah!
Chip is going to go down to meet you when you get to London and travel up with you on the same plane. Then you can't doze off with jetlag and miss the plane, and he can get the news fresh off the pan. Great idea? We can discuss the details by phone or email nearer the time.
Room painted, Jessie in jungle-ready gear, Oliver polished, Benedict's whiskers a go-go, your favourite tea being planned, even the car is working(including the doors!).
Come home soon.
all my love
Mai
Heya Adriana, how are uuu???? good to see u enjoying ur trek!! it looks really good! went down to portsmouth on ssaturday to watch the football and it was raining and the match was really boring!! hope ur managing and ur friendly spirit is pushing you through it!! ive been busy here but i wish i had stayed and done the trek but hey! see you have emma again...so thats cool!! have a great end to the trek and see you when youre back! missing you!! hope ur not missing me too much!!lol
ReplyDeletelove adam xxxxxxxxxxx
Alright Luke, thought i would update you on arsenal and how they are doing while you have been away!! they are 3rd in table and knocked out of champs league by Messi! He scored 4 goals in the 2nd leg after arsenal went 1 0 up! Fabregas got injured for rest of season pretty much!! Hell also miss the blackburn game i hope!!haha!! Thats defo 3points blackburn! Also Bender scored in the 90+5 minute to beat wolves 1-0!!! another last minute goal!!lucky gunners!!
ReplyDeleteAnyway i hope that trek is good and you are enjoying it! good luck for the rest of it!!
From Adam! xx
Heyyyyyaaaaaa Carla, just to say i hope u got my 1st message and well done on doing the trek!! It sounds awsome and wish i could have done it!!! Good luck for the rest of it and hope u r well!! Missing you!! England is boring but been going out a lot and seeing Lottie!! She said the picture you drew on the sand was awsome lol!! thanks for lending me your camera for the little while as well!!! Bring on Devon!! Looking forward to seeing u!! Adam xXxxxxxx
ReplyDeletebetty sheeps
ReplyDeletezulu 5
helloooo, and happy easter,
What did you get in your egg? chocolate or a turtle, i hope it was a little flapper, you can eat as much chocolate as you want next week,
i didn't get an egg as it happens, don't worry, i didn't get a turtle either, but i did get a happy birthday cake, i like happy birthday cake, i think you might get a happy birthday cake soon, you never can tell but always hope eh?
earnshaw
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteNo blog from Zulu 6? A shame - would have been lovely to hear something about it and to see some pictures!
Anyway, send our love to Olly Longworth, Zulu 6, and to all the other Lewes boys scattered in other groups.
Karen, Chris and Georgexxx
Hannah Johns Zulu 3
ReplyDeleteNo recent blog from your group but hope you are now arriving back at fieldbase for the big party. My goodness you deserve it! We are all very excited that soon you will be packig up for the flight home and can't wait to see you. Say thank you to all the "Bravos" for keeping us amused these past weeks. We shall miss our daily "Operation Raleigh 10B" blogs. We have arranged really sunny, hot weather for our return but not quite like Costa Rica. Jack an I have been out in the garden all day - in T-shirts!! Come carefully, darling Hannah.
Love and hugs from us all at Chepstow. xxxxxxx
Pete crosbie, zulu 4
ReplyDeleteAlright Phil, i cant be rude on this blog message cus otherwise they wont send it to you cus they will think i dont like you (not that i like you) Anyway i thort id let u know liverpool drew to blues although you probly already know all the scores from radio raleigh and the internet cafe but im still recovering from wasting 48quid on watching villa get beat 7-1. I rote this on the 9th of April so you mite not get it before you leave. Hope you had fun with your new group in La Crangreja buildin paths but im sure it cant have been as good as the mighty Alpha 7. Im going away travelling on the 18th til late june but we will have to meet up for a reunion with the others in england when ur back aswell, have fun with ur travellin with ur lewes bum boys!!!!!
love From
Jon/Whalley/Wesley/d##k
James Forde, zulu 5
ReplyDeleteSafe Jaymie, thort id cheer u up with a blog message although you wont get this til the end cus i only wrote it on the 9th. Im still missin the good old times in nicaragua with oscar, fran and jennifer and obviously most of all reynaldo and his new balance trainers! also im sure you already know but leeds have royally messed up recently losing about 5 games in a row. Hope you had a good time in camronal with the turtles and hope you finished the hatchery which we couldnt be bothered to do...Im goin away on my travells soon but should definately meet up in leeds or somin with every1 else. Anyway i got you on facebook so i can message you on that.. have fun interaling and finally hever is an idiot!!
love from Juancito aka jon!!!
Nick Ash, zulu 1
ReplyDeleteNick, hows your blue overcoat? found it very interestin lookin at your trecking group when they came up on the blog.. hope you managed it and didnt whimp out like phil(btw i have to be nice on this blog) Ive spoken to james ballie and they assured me that you wont be getting a place there so i dont have to change accomidation now which is good. Hope you havnt missed me too much since ive been gone. Have fun travelling with your southern boyfriends and if i dont see you b4 september i guess ill see you at leeds (but not james ballie) !
Love from Jon aka Whalley!!
Hi Honey (jess Gerry Zulu 10)
ReplyDeleteI can't believe it is nearly the end of your raleigh trip. Sorry I haven't bloged this week, but it seems that we have been really busy, but we have really missed you! Only 21 more sleeps till we see you. Pops and Pete are coming back from Spain early too see you, and Lol Lol is coming home for the weekend. Did Alice tell you that she has her driving test on the 21st April. She so wants to pass before you come home. Can't wait to hear all your news and see all you pictures.
Are things still a bit slow in the toilet department?.
Did you get the email from Alice telling you that we are on Scipe. I cant wait to see you. It is amazing, we have been talking to Sadie and Trond. They are off to Grand Canneries on Wednesday, but at least we can see them on scipe. It will be really good when you go to Thailand, we can keep in touch regularly, the distance doesn't seem so great.
The weather has at last changed, we went to the China House for a drink with Pops and Pete tonight.
Hopefully speak to you tomorrow or soon!
Let us know if your money runs out!
love you lots and lots and miss you
mum and dad
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Nathan Denne Zulu 8
ReplyDeleteHi Nathan
Can't believe this time next week you'll be home! It's actually sunny here and i've finally turned off the central heating....we'll see if it stays off!
Luke and I had fun up in London where we saw Billy Elliot which produced the worst Geordie accents ever and to be honest was a bit of a crap musical - wouldn't waste your money on that one - and we sat in the tiniest theatre seats known to man! the rest of the London trip was fun, although we stayed in a randomly weird super-modern hotel room with no window to the outside world!
The General Election was called on our first day there (Tue) so we had a laugh at the media circus in Westminster and chatted to one of the presenters. I wouldn't want his job but I think Luke might!
London at midnight was pretty cool, but during the day it's a complete tourist trap at the moment. Not that that should be a great surprise! ;-)
I'm loving time off work, got another whole week to go still :) Grandma arrives on Monday and Luke and I are off to the match on Tuesday...they've already gained promotion and it's just within the bounds of possibility that the Reading match might see a championship win!
Alex has posted a video of his bungy jump on facebook - scary! i'm glad I only saw it after I knew he survived! He hasn't done his skydive yet and may save it for Oz. I think they're off to do a homestay aomewhere rural...sounds fun!
looking forward to speaking to you again and seeing you soon, enjoy the last few days!!
mum xx
betty Zv
ReplyDeletebaa baa brown sheeps, have you any wool?
fk yeah you think i'm bald????
mann, thas just bout it,
well i have spread the good word about the bar for anyone and everyone tht isn't really interested but i have forced it upon them, i promised you all the support i could muster and feel i have been good for my word,
all but final word says
SPEND SOME TIME IN NEW YORK, SEE LION KING FOR YOUR HAPPY BIRTHDAY i am sure you have a slush fund and you would be flippin mad not to,
anyhoo
yeah
earnshaw
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