we arrived in sandakan late at night after our flight from KK. It was only a 45 min flight, and was free apart from the taxes. The hotel we stayed at has a famous dvd categorising system, shown here. The standout being 'Gigantic animal movie'. However no time for watching those, after a severely overpriced beer we slept, showered and departed for Selingang (Turtle) island, a 45 min boat ride from Sandakan
The owner liked to show off his catches. The wharf was accessed through a water village, which seem very common in Borneo, and can even be quite affluent.
This is Selingang, part of a group of 3 islands, swimming distance from the phillipines, where giant turtles like to lay there eggs. The beaches are littered with tracks every morning from females landing each night. A professional preservation programme for the eggs, including a hatchery, etc operates here and also runs the tourist side of it. 50 people are allowed on the island per night. It is definitly turtles before tourists here though. We were up close to a female laying at night, but pretty difficult to discern what was actually going on. We release tiny little babys into the sea though, apparently 0-2% of them survive.
This is our hut where we talked crap, and got shat on by geckos. We spent a good amount of time on the idyllic beach snorkelling. I saw a sea snake, and we came across a young turtle which we followed around for a bit.
we arrived in sandakan late at night after our flight from KK. It was only a 45 min flight, and was free apart from the taxes. The hotel we stayed at has a famous dvd categorising system, shown here. The standout being 'Gigantic animal movie'. However no time for watching those, after a severely overpriced beer we slept, showered and departed for Selingang (Turtle) island, a 45 min boat ride from Sandakan
The owner liked to show off his catches. The wharf was accessed through a water village, which seem very common in Borneo, and can even be quite affluent.
This is Selingang, part of a group of 3 islands, swimming distance from the phillipines, where giant turtles like to lay there eggs. The beaches are littered with tracks every morning from females landing each night. A professional preservation programme for the eggs, including a hatchery, etc operates here and also runs the tourist side of it. 50 people are allowed on the island per night. It is definitly turtles before tourists here though. We were up close to a female laying at night, but pretty difficult to discern what was actually going on. We release tiny little babys into the sea though, apparently 0-2% of them survive.
This is our hut where we talked crap, and got shat on by geckos. We spent a good amount of time on the idyllic beach snorkelling. I saw a sea snake, and we came across a young turtle which we followed around for a bit.
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you guys missed Claire's and Matt's leaving drinks for this?!
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