This morning, our campers visited the nearby organic garden at Marea Beach resort on Playa Blanca. The kids learned about nutrition, where their foods come from, and the importance of natural gardening without pesticides and other chemicals. They all had a great time and were able to bring home some […]
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Yesterday was the first day of our Summer Camp and also the drawing for our raffle supporting the camp. The winning ticket was #10, held by Zaneta Stasiskiene of Kaunas, Lithuania (WOW!) where she is a professor at the University of Technology, Kaunas. Zaneta met Damaris while visiting the turtle camp […]
A beautiful painting of a sea turtle hatchling crawling to the sea, donated by local artists is the prize that will go to our raffle winner!!!! How do I buy a ticket, you ask? Well, the tickets are not ‘for sale’. We are giving them away to anyone who donates […]
As you may have heard, Campamento Tortuguero Ayotlcalli holds a camp each summer for local children. This two-week camp includes many different activities for the children and could not happen without the help of our volunteers, from near and far. The children learn not just about sea turtles, but about […]
It is with some sadness and a huge sense of accomplishment that we report our last scheduled patrol of the season (30 April 2019). We’ve been patrolling daily since last July and the season is now at its’ end. Your blogging couple here drew the lucky stick and was on […]
Well, this is a first for us. A family of supporters each want their very own nest! A couple from Montana that live here part time and support the camp full time contacted us recently to talk about a very special adoption. First the back story! Kathern and her husband […]
Ayotlcalli no es solamente “La Casa de la Tortuga”, sino que también es la casa de tres perros: Blacky, Fox y Bella, aparte de Lily, una perrita que vive dentro. Si usted ha asistido a una liberación, seguro que conoce a éstas dulces mascotas del campamento. Ellos protegen el corral, […]
Happy weekend everyone! It seems like the last couple of posts have not been happy ones, so it is time to switch that up with a happy post. Last night we had another special release of an adopted nest! This nest was a big one – 123 eggs. 92 of […]
Hello again. We are sad to be writing with more bad news so soon! This is a story about another night on patrol. So when we leave on patrol in the wee morning hours, the first decision is ‘Which way do we turn?” Left toward Barra de Potosí or right […]
Here we are again with another bit of sad news. Last night on patrol two of our volunteers came upon a situation that, while infrequent, we think bears reporting. It started out as a good thing. They saw a set of tracks in the sand letting them know that a […]