Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Turtle Habitat
August 25, 2008
Habitaçao de Torturuginha
So, after almost exactly one year at site here in Cha di Igreja (my one year anniversary is this Monday actually!), I finally have an actual, tangible, con-crete something to show for my time and energy, which I am proud to un-veil to you today.
You may remember the INDP group (they of the turtles and matching white shirts) that I was working with last summer. We tried more or less unsuc-cessfully, to build turtle “incubators,” gave a formaçao on environmental awareness, staged a beach clean-up and a “Get To Meet The Baby Tur-tles” day in Cruzinha. Well, over the past 4 months, I’ve been helping to coordinate a series of meetings between the president of the Associaçao in Cruzinha and representatives from the INDP in Mindelo. Basically, during these meetings a plan of action was developed and last month, we finally put everything into action. The result of which is shown in the pictures be-low.
Essentially what we’ve got here is a Turtle Protection Area. Using rocks from the ribeira we built a protected, sheltered and monitored area to put turtle eggs. Obviously turtles don’t know to lay their eggs here (read my previous entry about Sea Turtles to learn how they lay their eggs in areas where the water comes up and drowns the eggs), so we also had a forma-çao where INDP trained some volunteers from Cruzinha how to watch for, measure, monitor and document each instance when a sea turtle lays eggs on the beach and then how to handle and move the eggs to the protected area. There is now a volunteer sleeping on each beach every night watch-ing for mama sea turtles. Each instance is then logged into a log book and there will be volunteer ready and waiting 45 days later to escort the little bastards to the sea when they hatch.
As you can see from the pictures, there has already been quite a bit of sea turtle egg laying activity, and the habitaçao is already being put to good use. The giant palm leaf was my idea. So without further ado, here is the Sea Turtle Protection Area at Praia Boca di Mocha!
Habitaçao de Torturuginha
So, after almost exactly one year at site here in Cha di Igreja (my one year anniversary is this Monday actually!), I finally have an actual, tangible, con-crete something to show for my time and energy, which I am proud to un-veil to you today.
You may remember the INDP group (they of the turtles and matching white shirts) that I was working with last summer. We tried more or less unsuc-cessfully, to build turtle “incubators,” gave a formaçao on environmental awareness, staged a beach clean-up and a “Get To Meet The Baby Tur-tles” day in Cruzinha. Well, over the past 4 months, I’ve been helping to coordinate a series of meetings between the president of the Associaçao in Cruzinha and representatives from the INDP in Mindelo. Basically, during these meetings a plan of action was developed and last month, we finally put everything into action. The result of which is shown in the pictures be-low.
Essentially what we’ve got here is a Turtle Protection Area. Using rocks from the ribeira we built a protected, sheltered and monitored area to put turtle eggs. Obviously turtles don’t know to lay their eggs here (read my previous entry about Sea Turtles to learn how they lay their eggs in areas where the water comes up and drowns the eggs), so we also had a forma-çao where INDP trained some volunteers from Cruzinha how to watch for, measure, monitor and document each instance when a sea turtle lays eggs on the beach and then how to handle and move the eggs to the protected area. There is now a volunteer sleeping on each beach every night watch-ing for mama sea turtles. Each instance is then logged into a log book and there will be volunteer ready and waiting 45 days later to escort the little bastards to the sea when they hatch.
As you can see from the pictures, there has already been quite a bit of sea turtle egg laying activity, and the habitaçao is already being put to good use. The giant palm leaf was my idea. So without further ado, here is the Sea Turtle Protection Area at Praia Boca di Mocha!
Killer Chinese Shit Balls
August, 29, 2008
Killer Chinese Shit Balls!!!
So I’ve just discovered what can only be described as a superior Chinese loja product. It is quite possibly the only superior Chinese product available in Cape Verde. It’s called...well I don’t know what it’s called because its written in Chinese, but its a tiny little bag of foul smelling fly killing shit balls.
If you look back a little ways in the blog you’ll see an entry about how abso-lutely crazy the flies have been making me the past few months...and I’m using “crazy” in the truest sense of the word. Well anyway last week I was at a restaurant in Poto Novo and they had these little pink balls on dishes out and they were surrounded by dead flies. I asked and was told that they were indeed foul smelling fly killing balls and that they were available at a loja there in Port. So I bought a 20 of them (they’re only 20$00 CVE each) and tested them out they instant I got home.
Works like a goddam charm!!!!! Although they smell like shit...literally...like animal poop, they friggin’ kill flies like you would not believe. As you can hopefully tell from the picture below (not for the weak stomached) they do their job exceedingly well even. You tear open the packet and set out the shit balls and logue kel moment (instantly) the flies zero and and zip right to the tray where they are immediately incapacitated. No sht, they land on the stuff and immediately go into some sort of insect fit and sputter and die in about 5 seconds.
I’m not sure what’s in these shit balls, and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know, but I’m happy as hell to have trays of them laying around my house. I did read the back of the package (which is printed in broken English and provides for some hilarious reading. This is, word for word, what it had to say:
“This bait can lure and kill fly quick. And is suitable for family, restaurant, breeding farm where flies are bread and gathered. The product is easy for use. Use: Unpack the bag and dump balls into open pan. Put it at the place where flies appear. In case where flies are much more, it is better to control density of flies to spread your balls. It can increase lure against flies if spreading a bit of beer on your balls. The product has lessen toxicity against persons and cattle. Warn: Insecticidal!!”
Awesome.
More about awesome Chinese translations into english later on. For now, feast your eyes on a thousand dead flies, which accumulated in less than one hour.
Killer Chinese Shit Balls!!!
So I’ve just discovered what can only be described as a superior Chinese loja product. It is quite possibly the only superior Chinese product available in Cape Verde. It’s called...well I don’t know what it’s called because its written in Chinese, but its a tiny little bag of foul smelling fly killing shit balls.
If you look back a little ways in the blog you’ll see an entry about how abso-lutely crazy the flies have been making me the past few months...and I’m using “crazy” in the truest sense of the word. Well anyway last week I was at a restaurant in Poto Novo and they had these little pink balls on dishes out and they were surrounded by dead flies. I asked and was told that they were indeed foul smelling fly killing balls and that they were available at a loja there in Port. So I bought a 20 of them (they’re only 20$00 CVE each) and tested them out they instant I got home.
Works like a goddam charm!!!!! Although they smell like shit...literally...like animal poop, they friggin’ kill flies like you would not believe. As you can hopefully tell from the picture below (not for the weak stomached) they do their job exceedingly well even. You tear open the packet and set out the shit balls and logue kel moment (instantly) the flies zero and and zip right to the tray where they are immediately incapacitated. No sht, they land on the stuff and immediately go into some sort of insect fit and sputter and die in about 5 seconds.
I’m not sure what’s in these shit balls, and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know, but I’m happy as hell to have trays of them laying around my house. I did read the back of the package (which is printed in broken English and provides for some hilarious reading. This is, word for word, what it had to say:
“This bait can lure and kill fly quick. And is suitable for family, restaurant, breeding farm where flies are bread and gathered. The product is easy for use. Use: Unpack the bag and dump balls into open pan. Put it at the place where flies appear. In case where flies are much more, it is better to control density of flies to spread your balls. It can increase lure against flies if spreading a bit of beer on your balls. The product has lessen toxicity against persons and cattle. Warn: Insecticidal!!”
Awesome.
More about awesome Chinese translations into english later on. For now, feast your eyes on a thousand dead flies, which accumulated in less than one hour.
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