Blogs from Hawaii, Pacific Coast, Guatemala, Central America Caribbean
Turtle Project; ARCAS Hawaii and El Rosario
Published: September 15th 2009Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Pacific Coast » Hawaii
September 10th 2009
We arrived to the turtle project in Hawaii (in Guatemala, not in US!) on the 31st and stayed there two nights for ¨training¨. It is Olive Ridley turtle season but they also get some Leatherbacks during their season. The first night there, there was a nest of turtle hatchlings in the hatchery which we had to measure their lengths, record and then release the turtles on the beach by the ocean. They were so small, they fit in the palm of your hand, and surprisingly quite strong flippers. Typically once they hatch, they have a day or two to start eating in the ocean so we release them right away. We had to wait until every little hatchling made it to the ocean and a few were a bit slower than the others working out where ... read more
Hawaii, Guatemala
Published: November 10th 2006Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Pacific Coast » Hawaii
November 9th 2006
New photos are located at: http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=n1ics9r.24r1q477&x=0&y=-skyhoc Not so many as last time, so you hopefully won't get bored. I just returned to civilization after 2.5 weeks roughing it out on the coast. I first went to Montericco a small beach village that many tourists and Guatemaltecans (who can afford it) trek to every weekend. I got there on a dreary Sunday (we caught the tail end of a Hurricane in Mexican) and by Sunday evening the town was completely deserted. I think there was one other girl at my hotel. I got a cold as soon as I got there and even though the hotel was right on the beach the rooms where rather depressing...so I spent an (almost) miserable 3 days there until I got over my cold. My first day there I went to ... read more
Parlamero. . . . thats an interesting one for the CV!!
Published: October 10th 2006Central America Caribbean » Guatemala » Pacific Coast » Hawaii
September 4th 2006
Having thoroughly brushed up on our Spanish we made our way to our next volunteer project, in Hawaii. Not the American Hawaii, but a very small village on the Pacific coast of Guatemala and one of the main nesting sites for the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle. This was of course accompanied by the obligatory super long bus journey but we made all our connections on the magic buses without any hitches so it was a smooth 11 hours. We arrived at the project around midday and were shown round and briefly told what the volunteers did. The majority of the work was going to be at night so we were advised to get a bit of sleep after our travelling, having no problem with being told to sleep we duely obliged and woke up feeling refreshed ... read more
