KOGGALA
The place where we saved the turtles
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It costs you nothing, but a good deed is done :-)
Our irrepressible passion for adventure took us to a huge deserted Sri Lankan beach near the city of Koggala. We were here with a good purpose - to save the little turtles. By the way, the cost of participating in the rescue operation from each participant was 1,500 rupees (10 dollars), but isn't the two-hundred-year life of the rescued turtle worth the money? In the next photo, I already look forward to the joy of doing a good deed.
But let's tell you everything in order. First, you need to listen to a detailed lecture on the difficulties of reproduction and survival of turtles in our cruel world. Then you will be taken to a large container with baby turtles. Looking at them, you understand that you have never seen such a "mi-mi-mi" before and you will not even believe that these crumbs can gain weight up to 200 kg ...
After playing with "toddlers", everyone should take a picture with an adult turtle.
Our rescue team made this part of the tour with great pleasure ;-)
After the photo shoots, we took up the balls. Well, I mean for learning how turtle eggs look and develop before getting into the round pool of water. The next photo in our report is for those of our readers who have never seen turtle eggs.
And incubators for these eggs are several sections of the beach, fenced off with a fence and with signs indicating the breeds and potential birthdays of future turtles.
After visiting the incubators, our guide introduced us to a "volunteer" who works here for free and will take us to the shore to save the turtles from captivity. It is not clear why, but the guide himself was very dissatisfied with our desire to release turtles into the wild (apparently rescuing turtles is not a mission of life for him), and the "volunteer" looked like Pasha Emilievich, Alkhen's nephew from "The Twelve Chairs": a two-meter fellow who food helps to raise turtles. Here he is with buckets where the armored kids are going to the water.
And in the following photos we will show how the facial expressions of people who save turtles differ: On the left - a guide who saves turtles every day,
On the right is a traveler who rescues a turtle for the first time.
And now the solemn moment comes when our team of travelers goes to the beach to fulfill their goal - a few minutes and seven little turtles will gain Freedom.
And maybe 150 years later, someone swimming on the ocean coast in Sri Lanka will see a huge turtle swimming by and will not even guess that many years ago, in the Koggaly region, cheerful tourists from Ukraine released it into the ocean.
Watch the video of how the event was held. Swim our turtles grow up to 200 kilograms, live up to 200 years, and we will definitely return to you.
