This post is a few days old from when the students first arrived to Meru. I am writing this a day late. Yesterday was an incredible journey as we drove 7 hours north to Meru. The drive was filled with new landscapes and new (to me) ways of life. Driving started promptly at 7:00 after...
Another humbling moment for the turtles crew last night! On our night patrol, we came across some tracks and found a nesting turtle. Students were able to extract the eggs, helping to count them and gently place them in a bag for relocation! While eggs were still being extracted from the nest (92 total!!!), Josie...
This morning we went over to the station and picked up trash on the beach. We learned from Juan that beaches in Costa Rica are full of trash from all over the world because their labels are in several different languages. After retrieving the trash we sorted it into reusable bottle caps, bottles, cans and everything...