Baby Turtle Hatchings After the broken sleep, I decided it would be a great idea to get up for 7am to grab the snorkel again and head out looking for some adult turtles, one of the other guests had spotted one the day before. I didn't see one but I did go past large schools of both little and slightly bigger fish, who didn't seemed to be that bothered of my presence. On going for breakfast we were told that some baby turtles had hatched around 4am (we were a f...

Turtle Hunter (find me a turtle to wave at) Around 10am we threw on some bug spray and ascended up some forestry 20 minutes or so from our hotel to a look out point with views over the bay. I'm told there are monkeys here but mostly monkeys like to avoid me, perhaps it would be like staring at a mirror and would cause confusion to both parties. Needless to say, no monkeys and a few mosquito bites later we were up a few hundred meters overlooking turtle bay. The ...

The Great Chicken Escape Up at 5:45 is not something I want to write about that often. We grabbed some breakfast from our hotel and then jumped in a tricycle to take us 7.5km to San Jose terminal. We feared we would have to take take a small Jeepney to Port Barton but luckily we had some oldish beaten up bus that looked like it could be a bit more comfortable. Two men came running at the tricycle within 20 seconds of each other speaking to the driver trying to g...