Matura National Forest Waterfall

Although few nesting turtles were seen last night it was still a huge turtle rave where this team's previous record of saving baby turtles was 122 by the group called "turtle savers" was broken, and boosted up to 190 baby turtles in one night. We got back to our rooms at an hour of the night which doesn't exist to most people, but were still in high spirits because we were told that we could sleep until 11 o'clock the next morning.

The group before starting beach patrol last night.

Even though the team had the extravagance of sleeping in, most still got up at nine and ten o'clock. The brunch was to everyone's taste as the cook yet again pulled brilliant dishes out of their seemingly endless hat. Barely 30 minutes after we had eaten our fill, Ronald got us into the truck to bring us to an arduous trek with a very rewarding prize - a swim at the fabled waterfall pool in the middle of the Matura National Forest just 20 minutes from Nature Seekers headquarters. Many slipped and slid in their eagerness to get to the cool water.

Hiking to the waterfall through Matura National Forest.

Everyone gazed at the bottom of the 22 feet deep pool (and fish all around) with the aid of goggles that Dilly brought with her. We did a bit of everything there but the leaders refused to let us jump off the 30 feet tall rocks surrounding the waterfall. On the way back our chauffeur let us have a quick dip in Matura River to let us clean our shoes and have cherry-coconut ice-cream.

Swimming at the falls.

After that it was a lazy day until we had a beautiful fish dish for dinner at 17:00. We are due to leave at 19:00 for the beach where we hope for a fantastic night of turtle tagging.

Alexander putting a flipper tag on a nesting Leatherback turtle.

Today's post by Alexander