Introduction to Project Orion II

Project Orion II - Rovering with Turtles
is the 4th Scouts of the World Award (SWA) Voluntary Service Project of the SWA Singapore Base.

The 2nd installment of this project will be led by 9 youths from Singapore and they will return to Setiu, Terengganu, where the pioneer team had left their legacy a year ago.

The primary aim of the team would be the conservation of sea turtles, but that would not be their only contribution during the project duration of 26th June to 10th July. The 9 passionate youths will also be involved in mangrove replanting, repair work for the villagers and WWF info centre and English and conservation awareness education for the children.


"Leave the place a little better than you first found it." - Lord Baden Powell

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Day 5 - Too Fast Too Furious Day

Hi everyone,

Welcome to another daily update of Project Orion II. The day was packed with so much surprises that we did not have a chance to grasp a breather. First on the line, we went to Madam Halimah's house to do the painting. To my surprise, we did the pain-in-the-neck undercoating within 2 hours and also used the same amount of time to paint the whole house. After painting purple houses for 3 days, the light blue colour does look refreshing.

We completed painting the house in an amazing time of 4 hours, I personally believe it's the experience we have gained along the way that allowed us to complete it. After painting, it is another episode of YongLiang's "catch of the day". Well, as promised I try to catch at least an animal daily, yup I have met "AH BU" the monkey which is being tied to the tree. (poor thing right.)

Moving on, we were supposed to paint the mural in school but due to some hiccups the delivery of the paint was delayed. Thus we spent the free time making a documentary which we will try to post up when the bandwidth allows us to do so.

Coming up on the list, we were scheduled to assist in the excavation. There were 3 clutches to be excavated - 50 none hatched , 85 with only 1 hatched and 92 with 84 hatched . 2 lucky hatchlings were found alive in each of the clutches of 85 and 92.


Hey Faizal!! these are the Eggs you want so badly . but guess what we ain't going to give it to you :P

Those hatchlings that did not survive, they were preserved for educational and research purposes.
After a long day, we decided to go to pernarik inn for star gazing. But guess what, we saw hatchlings emerging from the nest. It's definitely a rare sight and its what we all have been wanting to see. There were a total of 116 hatchling being released and for the team that went for patroling found 3 clutches of eggs but 1 of it was poached by thieves. However we manage to collect a total of 138 eggs.

The malay phrase we have learnt today is:

Ambil Gambar - Take Picture
(Its essential to learn this phrase so we can deliver all these beautiful picture to you guys out there)

Yong Liang
Signing Out

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2 comments:

  1. Ah Di.....Wah lau.... Stop Playing with Food.... Bring it back for me.

    Brother Bull

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  2. i am not playing! i am doing doing my job.

    yongliang

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