baby turtles!!!!

yesterday while we were on our way home, we stopped by at rantau abang, trganu coz nature called.. hehehe.. and there were this tandas awam tat looked clean.. when we reached the tandas awam, we saw a pakcik who were cleaning the toilets.. after we did what we needed to do, the pakcik told us "jap lagi ada org nak lepas penyu" in tganu dialects.. i, of course tak phm la.. ajoy understood and asked the pakcik more questions.. and when ajoy told me mmg kitaorg excited la sgt2 nk tgk org lepaskan baby turtles to the sea kan.. 

so we went down to the beach which was only about 5 minutes walk from the toilet and carpark.. mula2 mcm takde org jer, we werent even sure if we got the info right or not.. and then tak lama lps tu, we heard voices and more and more ppl were decending the beach.. 

by 8pm there were loads of ppl.. and we were all waiting for the cue to watch the release of the baby turtles.. so in between, ramai la org amik gmbr the turtles and themselves.. and since it was 8pm plus, gelap la kat situ kan.. so bila amik gmbr of coz la semua org guna flash.. pastu the facilitators asyik tegur everybody not to use flash and not to suluh the turtles.. kesian, coz the turtles looked agitated and they said it could affect the turtles' coordination and sense of direction.. it'll make them confused.. 

around 830pm kut, it was already time to release the turtles! and the best part was when the facilitator said "okay, sorang bole amik 2 ekor.. pegang bdn dia.. diri belakang line.. jgn lepaskan lagi ya.." of course bila pegang tu, the turtles were really active.. mcm tgh swimming hehehehe.. their legs (legs ke?? hahaha) didnt stop moving and i was worried they'd be too tired to swim by the time they get to the water.. hehe.. pastu a girl who did research on turtles told us to massage the turtles' neck, and tat wud calm the turtles.. it helped la, for a few secs, pastu they get agitated balik, and then relaxed and then agitated balik.. heheheh they're so cute.. 

and then, the facis told everyone to release the baby turtles.. watching them ran towards the sea was indescribable.. it is really nothing like watching it on tv.. and the cute thing is, some of them sesat and went the wrong way.. they got confused with all the torch lights.. kesian kan.. tp cute.. so everybody helped to pick the lost ones and directed them to the sea.. 

and when the turtles touched the sea water, i was among so many who bid the turtles good bye.. best sgt2.. :)

here are some pics we took ^_^:

*they released about 400-500 baby turtles last nite.. they put about 60 baby turtles in each box..

*close up

*some of the crowd..

*cute tak???

*bye bye baby turtles!!!