part 3 of day 2 in cherating

 After the fireflies watching ended, we received a call from Hafiz and told us that tonight the turtles were going to land on the coastal  to lay egg.

Wow,I was exhilarating because I never thought I will have a chance to watch that.

So, we immediately rushed to the cottage once we reached the bank.

Well, as we all known,There was no turtle in Kelantan,

but since we were at the northest of  Kelanatan,there was only a few miles to Terengganu, so we actually hired a van to bring us there

she is digging the hole to lay egg

.It took us around 15 minutes there,the place is known as Teluk Mat Nik.Each of us paid50$  but my brother was FOC.

the turtle

In the van, the driver, who is also the daughter of the boss of this activity gave us a briefing

.i should rather said we kept on asking question. 

We get to know that the best season for turtle watching is from March to September.However the peak month for turtle to lay egg is from May to July

.The temperature can differentiate sex of the baby turtles. 

If they buried it under higher temperatue(above 40"c)the baby turtles will be a female turtle.However if the temperature is between 30 to 39'c,the baby turtle will be a male.

The special thing about the turtle is taht it will only lay eggs in the place where it  borns

.There are 4 main types of turtles,the belimbing turtle ,or aptly named after leatherback turtles can only be founded in Rantau Abang.

the egg of turtle

It is the largest turtle in Malaysia,Turtle agar, or aptly named after green turtle is the turtle in Teluuk Mt Hik,where i got the chance to look at.

They are smaller compare to leatherback turtle and they feed on agar(seaweed),penyu karah,they have beaks that look like eagle one,and turtle lipas ,the smallest tutle in Malaysiaor aptly named after olive  ridley turtle.

 Once we reached there, we walked along the coastal and climbed over the rock before we reached the destination.Then, we saw that.A turtle made its way back trough the sea.

She had finished laying the egg.

It was too dark for us to see so we switch on the torch but the guide ask us to switch off as it might afraid the turtle and we did.But still able to got a glimpse on it.

Then, we were asked to follow the guide to another side where the turtle started to lay egg.

It slowly moved its way under a tree and used its front flippers to make a big hole.

we waited foe quite a long time and it started to lay egg.

The guide put a torch behing the  turtle so that we can have a clear look at it.It laid abot 80-100 of eggs.Then, it started to cry~

They don't. Their eyes are usually being washed by seawater so when they are ashore to lay eggs, their eyes secrete water from the tear ducts to keep them moist.
 They are not crying emotionally as we do but protecting their eyes from drying out.~according to the guide