4-8th Mar – Beaches, birds, turtles, and whales. Today we went whale watching and saw an enormous blue whale. The tale was the size of me (1-metre). I was glad I wasn’t in a smaller boat because it was so rough (people were sick). The boat smacked up and down and we got soaked. The blow holes sprayed water everywhere. Jonathan Turtle hatchery – Laying - 300 eggs each year, Growing – the eggs grow in sand for 64-days, Hatching, Surviving – it’s hard to survive because fishermen take the eggs and sell them to eat. Jonathan Twitching– birds we saw at Bundala; all 4 types of egrets, pelicans, green bee eaters, blue bee eaters, Indian darter, godwits, plovers, fish eagle, sea eagle, storks, and stilts. My favourite birds there were the bee eaters because they
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