Senior Trip

For our school senior trip, we went to Watamu on the Kenyan coast. I was part of the service strand, as i was very interested in helping out as much as i could in whatever way i could. It turns out that there was actually quite a lot to do. On the first day, i helped out in an attempt to clean up the beach as much as we could. Basically, we all got a big plastic bag, some plastic gloves and then we walked up and down the beach in groups looking for any sort of non-biodegradable items that may have somehow found their way onto the beach (usually through littering, though there was the occasional item that had washed up from the sea). We did our best, and took about 3 hours to get the beach looking almost brand new again (joke). To be honest, that felt very good, as i felt like i was helping out the entire local environment. Not only would the animals around the area be saved from death by choking, or some sort of poisoning, but also the beach looked much much much nicer when we were done. There was no longer any eyesores that took away from the pleasure of just chilling on the beach.
We also got the opportunity to help out at a local turtle watch. They actually had two turtles that they were taking care of which we were able to help out. Firstly, we helped clean their little enclosures, as they got pretty dirty. We also learnt the best way to clean and maintain a healthy turtle, as well as their environment. This was very interesting as i had never really even ever been that close to a turtle, let alone taken care of it - it was much easier than i thought it would be. Still challenging, but they are not picky animals, and when treated with care they seem to accept anything that comes their way (I never knew this).

We also got the rare chance to release the two turtles back into the wild, which was AMAZING! Just the feeling of helping them out on their last day was very nice, and them watching them go to restart their lives - a chance of a lifetime.