... Season and After season...21 turtles to

Glyfada                               

   9th November  2007        

Since I have gotten so behind in many topics and issues I have decided to update both October and November all together. Injured turtles have just started to slow down and leaving us times to recover from this really crazy crazy summer ! 

To start we were having a staff meeting when I got a very special phone call from somewhere in the Ionian sea : a New Arrival.  But this new one had a very unique twist. Mika, a juvenile loggerhead, was swimming in the Ionian sea. The sea was pretty rough and he was was having a hard time.

Arrives this big wave...

Mika gets pick up and thrown onto a ship. Not any ship, a tanker. There he is swept away on the deck. He reaches an evacuation pipe and his back flipper sucked onto it. Thankfully, Mikaealis, the onboard electrician from Bulgaria spots him. Putting on his glasses he realizes that this object stuck on board is a turtle. He picks it up and puts it in a barrel with some water.

This creates some excitement on board. Many people of the crew gather around this little creature. Every one want a picture with Mika.

But we are taking care of 21 loggerheads and 1 green.

Dias, the green, has been moved to the big tank. He seen very happy about that and we will released him next week, on the 8th of October. Pavlouko should be with him. Don't forget the 4th of October was the World Animal Day.

Amalia, a cute little loggerhead will be returned to the wild next today, 1st of October.

Volunteers numbers are getting low : Lena, a returning German volunteer came back for 2 weeks to work with us. Amanda and Catherine, both from New York have joined us. Zoe went back to the UK. 

Megan is here until the end of November. Andy (from Koroni) and the Mike (from Chania) arrive to join the gang. Celine (from Kip, understand Kipirassia) is residing at the center until she finds herself a job. She needs to save money since she will be back next year as a monitoring leader.

This time of the year we have also long term volunteers from the EVS program. They will be at the center until spring when you go off to the beaches to join the summer programs.

Sotiria, one of our turtles, was released on a sunny day.

Safe travelling :)

Summer has finally decided to end and we stepped directly into winter. Yesterday 8 Beaufort winds and massive waves invaded our sheltered sanctuary. Crashing waves washed the whole seafront as winds hurled in every location shaking the wagons and sweeping away every object not tied down.

The sun still shine every other day and lets us time to get on with the treatments of our turtles. 

Take Care,

B in touch ! B cool ! 

  (AKA Pavlo)

B patient ! I will put some new pictures soon :)

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