We are so near the end of the nesting season yet we are still finding so many nest. 2 nests were found in 2 consecutive days. 80 green turtle eggs were on the 24th and another 89 green turtle eggs found on the 25th. In total we have 7 nests in our hatchery with expected hatching dates [...]
We are very excited that the first turtle to be tagged this season has now returned. She was first seen on the 11th April when she laid a nest (86eggs) in sector B, she was tagged on the right flipper, BJ0805, and was measured, 95cm long and 84cm wide. She was spotted again in sector [...]
We celebrated Earth day at PomPom resort to support a greener more sustainable future for our planet. We had various activities planned which included a beach clean-up (with over 50% guest participation) and a lights out for an hour to reduce our carbon footprint. After which we all joined together for a group picture and [...]
Lats night we found 77 green turtle hatchlings walking around the beach bar area. They were coming out of a nest in front of beach villa 1! All the hatchlings were collected and released by beach villa 22 where the light from the hotel is less. We are monitoring the nest waiting for more hatchlings [...]
We were very excited to have the first underwater clean-up of the year, we cleaned the house reef to the right side of the jetty. A group of 10 formed by the marine biologists, dive centre staff and guests suited up and went for a free dive. In pairs we wondered around looking for any [...]
With the start of the nesting season we have started the turtle walk. Marine biologist, local patrollers, police and guests come together every night at 9pm for a 10min briefing on the turtles and then a 40min/1hour walk around the island hoping to find a nesting green or hawksbill turtle! If the turtle nests the [...]
Wow, we have to say a HUGE thank you to all the Turtle Sponsors who have very generously supported our Turtle Conservation Fund by sponsoring one of our Turtle Nests. Its great to get the support of our guests for this project, and its certainly been a busy month for all the new eggs we [...]
Two very generous families have sponsored our Turtle Nests this week, both families were lucky enough to see the baby turtles released, the mother turtle laying the eggs and even during the snorkel trip turtles mating! We wanted to give them both a very big THANK YOU from everyone here at Pom Pom, we will [...]
We have updated our Conservation T-shirts at Pom Pom with a few more colours, you can now get them in pretty pink for the ladies or cool blue! for the boys! Here is Chiemi, Alice and Elenora modelling the latest fashion at Pom Pom... Showing off our special Turtle T-shirts, all profits go [...]
Last night our guests staying at Beach Villa 2 had a surprise when they saw a large Green Turtle outside their room making her nest. We were lucky enough to be able to quietly watch her as she dug the hole then laid her eggs, as it was full moon there was no problem to [...]
