Day 10

 


Today, we awoke bedraggledly from 5 hours of shivering sleep, and crawled to breakfast. After breakfast, we went to the Verdiazul hatchery and learned how to dig for turtle eggs. Neat!

Niamh and Silas found actual turtle eggs, in addition to the fake ones! And all in the time it took some of us to find... 0 turtle eggs. Then at 2:00, we left to pick up tiny pieces of plastic off of the beach.

Some of us thought that we were going to the beach for fun so we wore bathing suits. Ryan found eight beer bottles. Carl filled a coconut with 150 hermit crabs (The Crabconut). Doing our part to protect the animals? Luckily, we collected a lot of plastic (mostly chupa sticks) and gave it to the nice buckets. Then Verdiazul kidnapped the buckets and locked them away forever.

We finished the day of hard work (only because we stayed up until 2:00 am the previous night) by going to the beach and looking at things. Rock things, fish things, star things. Tree things, trash things, a horde of children who thought they were at a nude beach. We tried a yummy Costa Rican grapefruit soda called Squirt. It tasted like bathroom cleaner, but with High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Then we took the vans back to the hotel. A few people rode in Cindy's car, and apparently Sage was being really loud. Come to think of it, we haven't seen Sage since. We had a nice dinner, and now we're playing card games in the dinning hall. So if you'll excuse me, I have a game to get back to.




(lined up in front of mystery turtle tracks; once you guess what kind of turtle made the track you can go find the "nest")

(you draw a circle the right diameter of the nest then use the stick to find the soft sand where the eggs are)

(divide the circle into quadrants and dig the right way like a sea turtle)






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