Our lovely family from Japan who stayed this week at Pom Pom all showed us how active and brave they were. Family Morishita all took their Discover Scuba, with little Momo taking her Bubblemaker course. They went with myself and Fefe from the Dive Centre, we were lucky to see 2 turtles, one Green and [...]
This month has been really busy at the hatchery, we are patrolling every evening with our lovely guests, some have been very lucky and had turtles nesting outside their beach villas! Also this week, lots of baby turtles have been born, 3 nests in the last 3 days, yesterday was a Hawksbill turtle nest which [...]
Our young turtle nest sponsors should be very proud last night as they have sponsored a very successful nest! At 9pm we had our latest hatching of baby Hawksbill turtles, from a lay of 129 eggs, we had 120 baby turtles witnessed by many of our guests from all over the world. We counted the [...]
This week our turtle patrol has been active every night with our guests making their patrol of the Island. They found a Green turtle laying eggs a few nights ago and have carefully relocated the eggs into our hatchery. A couple of days ago, Andy and Nadine from Germany very kindly sponsored this latest nest [...]
This morning at 10.30 am our first baby Hawksbill turtles arrived. This nest was sponsored by Andrew and Elaine, our guests who visited us earlier in the year. This was our biggest number of eggs found at Pom Pom, so we were a little concerned about the survival rate. We are very happy to report [...]
Amy, Ben and Sam are our latest Turtle sponsors, who after having joined our Turtle Patrol on the 21st of April on the last night of their stay on Pom Pom, were lucky enough to find a Hawksbill Turtle laying eggs. She laid 129 eggs that evening finishing at about 10.30pm.. We wanted to say [...]
We want to give a big thank you to our latest turtle sponsors, Mr Andrew and Mrs Elaine who have sponsored our latest Turtle nest. They went with our turtle patrol this week when we found the BIGGEST NEST YET! 189 EGGS! This is a record for Pom Pom, (and maybe [...]
Last night, witnessed by our lovely guests from Canada, Australia, Singapore, Britain, Holland, Germany and Malay, we had another successful hatching of Hawksbill baby turtles. We had 142 babies out of 165 eggs, so a good standard for the hatch rate, especially as there had been a little rain which can effect the hatch rates. [...]
Mr Erik and Mrs Charlize very kindly sponsored 2 turtle nests recently, a green turtle and a hawksbill turtle nest on behalf of their many nieces and newphews. They chose nests that were due to hatch quite shortly. We are pleased to report that both nests have successfully hatched. The first nest was a Green [...]
Phew, we have just finished a very busy 1 hour at the hatchery tonight! At 6pm, we noticed that there was some movement in one of our nests, as we started observing the sand moving, we saw the first baby Hawksbill turtle come up to the surface, after that it was very busy, as it [...]