1/8/2018 - Sri Lanka Day 9
回「龜」大海🐢
Second day of Turtle Project, all Turtle tanks at the Disabled Home need to be cleaned on Tuesday and the Conversation center tanks on Friday.
Today is a special day!!! Because 105 eggs hatched overnight! We get to take them out of the sand nest and examine them before releasing them to the ocean. 105 baby turtles! They buried deep into the sand... we carefully scooped out the sand and when saw the tiny little flapping flaps, we will need to pay special attention not to hurt these little creatures and take them out from the sand as they are stacking on each other. Just this morning we found 99 baby turtles and a few unhatched eggs and a few dead turtles. What joy it is to be the ‘mid-wives’ of these beautiful animals. I pray that God will bless them all to survive and grow into big strong sea turtles when they are in the ocean. Good news is after doing some examination, the manager said we are able to release partial of them tonight at sunset! Time is important as birds will be looking out for food when there are too much daylight. We all gone crazily happy for this exciting news!
After this joyous morning, here comes the dirty job... tank cleaning!!! First draining, scrubbing, scraping then refill with sea water... we seems doing a hard jobs but the real heavy lifting tasks is to connect the pipes from to ocean to the tanks and connect it with the water pump as well as electricity. It is magic when the guy was doing it in front of our eyes. I wonder how he can accomplish all these on his own. We spent the entire morning cleaned 5 tanks and 4 more in the afternoon, the center manager did the rest on his own in addition to the water pump. Only us 5 ladies, we achieved a lot and we are drop dead tired yet with a happy spirit. Brigitte is working especially hard to clean the tank, she is happy. ☺️I hope this experience will carry her a long way as to be a responsible, selfless and hard working individual.
6:30pm, we get to release partial of the baby turtles into the Indian Ocean. It’s like a ceremony of joy, seeing them in shell buried in the sand, hatched, witnessing the first flap of movement, swimming like a dancing flowers in the pool of water then heading out to the boundless ocean... my heart is filled with joy, yet, anticipating a full of obstacles future they are heading out into. That’s nature which we all need to accept the fact of reality. Each of us get to release 5-7 turtles, I asked God to bless these little creatures to live strong!
What I’ve encountered today worth a lifetime memory. As simple as that, joy derives from involving in life changing moments.
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