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	The volunteering job to turtles
	The way to do a marking

(Photos courtesy of Martin.)

The volunteering job to turtles

The priority reason for going to Coral Bay

Helping turtles nesting in the beach

This is the reason why i am going some 1000 km away from Perth, helping turtles nesting in the beach. It has been a big confusion that, people ask me, HOW do you help them? you would understand with the pictures below.

To help the baby turtles successfully break the egg shell and crawl back to the sea of mother nature, volunteers would set up a barriers and marking, of some wood sticks or a square piece of plastic net. From doing this, the setting prevents from Foxes' hungers and more importantly, human. 4Wheel Driving is allowed in the beach, if there are no visible marking on the beach therefore it is a possibility the 4WD would drive above the eggs and breaks them all.

The turtles inhabit in the Ningaloo Reef are now considered to be threatened or seriously endangered. Hope with little helps from those great volunteers will help their lives.

Though, i NEVER managed going to the nesting site. There were a few of stupid reasons...the truck did not have enough seats for me (the other 2 volunteers are the students of environmental study, i d better to give the seat.); it was Christmas, the ranger they have been dealing with was off to holiday...blah blah blah. So i just enjoyed my time in Coral Bay.

Another big reason of why most of them didn't meet a turtle at all...because humans had never stopped polluting the ocean and manage the waste water badly, turtles has became seriously endangered!

How can i stand up and be with building the Ningaloo Resort? WE had ruined the mother nature really enough.


The footprint of a female turtle from nesting on the beach.	Image the size of their and the weight of it,	These setting up are the markings of eggs existed underneath.