Delta 1 - what's goin' on?

Delta 1 spent the first 9 days at Playa Hermosa; a beautiful beach frequented by many types of endangered turtle. We have been working with rangers, digging, putting up fences and wandering the beach at night, all in an attempt for Tortuga conservation. On the second day, Ella, Rebecca, Juliet, Louise, Janet and Roberto were in the middle of digging a ditch when Charlie saved the day by yelling in warning for a rogue massive wave that was about to crash into the ditch. We later heard that the digging we had done had saved the turtles in the hatchery! We have been very lucky to see many turtles - Emmeline, Tom, and Charlotte were cautiously paddling when they turned around to see a turtle a few metres away. It worked its way up the beach, dug a nest, laid its eggs and left, whilst Delta 1 and the rangers stood and watched in amazement.

We have also released many baby turtles (everyone say ‘aaaaaah...’) - James very carefully carried them to the beach and we all placed them on the sand and watched them waddle to the ocean.

When we all arrived at Playa Hermosa we all thought the crabs were endearing, but after spending the week with them crawling in our shoes and scuttling everywhere, we now considered them pests!

In our free time, we learned Spanish from Rocio, who has been teaching us handy phrases like 'todo bien'. We also like to eat coconuts, listen to Roberto's renditions of Adele music, play lots of card games and carefully dip in the sea, which is dangerous due to riptides.

Delta 1 has now moved onto Carara, where we live in the jungle camp in the rainforest. We're helping to build the path in order to encourage tourism and allow rangers to continue to run and conserve the national park. Yesterday we went for a wash in the river in the rain. We were all clean and happy but Maddie fell over in the mud on the way back, which Roberto found very funny!

We also had to take a detour from the path when we found a snake swimming in a puddle, fortunately Juliet wasn't there as she hates snakes and even has a special stomping dance to ward them away!

Today we dug a ditch to divert water away from the path, and I can confirm that Delta 1 is loving life in the jungle so far. Louise is slightly upset that she has the most mossie bites! We are awoken by the sound of birds and monkeys daily, which is amazing, and are looking forward to the week ahead!

Delta 1, out!