First turtle patrol!

Hey everybody!

Well it´s official! This morning I had my first official turtle patrol...meaning it was organized and we followed through. Apparently during the month of September the turtles tend to beach as far away as possible due to the the way the tide is flowing. By the end of my stay, they should start beaching closer to the camp. Anyway...back to the turtle patrol. We´ve been waiting for these quad bikes to show up so we can do the full 12k of beach. I was second leg with my partner Jorge. We didn´t actually get to see any turtles but we did happen upon a nest of 127 eggs (woohoo!) and we ended up chasing a fox from another nest. Unfortunately only about 10 eggs were left from that nest :( Since those eggs were already so far along we were not able to move them so we had to bury them again and make a fake nest just in case any other animals decide to come for a midnight snack. It was funny because while I was digging up the nest I told Jorge that I felt like I had hit the Easter bunny jackpot and he looked at me strangely. Then I explained about Easter and how for some odd reason we´ve assigned a rabbit to the holiday even though it´s not about bunnies at all and he just looks at me and starts laughing and saying, "Cybil, rabbits don´t lay eggs." I was so shocked all I could do was sit there thinking, "Wow! He must think I´m a huge idiot." When we got back to the camp to put our eggs in the nursery, some of the babies were hatching from another nest. So after burying ours we helped dig up the hatching. Now they are in the kitchen waiting to be released tonight! EXCITING!

Other than that, I was on bathroom duty, but I finished that early on. YUCK! Don´t exactly know what to do for the rest of the day since I already finished all 6 of my books that I brought with me.