Lorraine’s work experience travel log

I'm Home!! Saturday was my last day in Grenada, I packed my suitcase and cleaned my room and at mid day Steph, Tom, Kate and I headed to the south. We went to a resturant and Bar in St Georges called the Brewery. I was run by english people and was a distillery that made and served a whole range of IPAs, Ales, Stouts and ciders. I had a Mango Cider which was very nice. They served the drinks in mason jars which were cute. Carter came and met us as well as Claire. We all ordered food which looked amazing. Steph and I both had Calzones, mine had chicken, olives, mushrooms and sweetcorn as well as cheese and tomato sauce. It was delicious! One of the best Calzones I've eaten. The toilets were really cool as well, aparently the urinals in the mens toilets were beer kegs cut out and both the taps in the womens and mens toilets were like the handles to pull a pint behind a bar! Apparently the Brewery is a hot spot for American university students that are studying to be Vets at U

Yesterday was project pack up day. We spent the day emptying the house of the survey equipment and cleaning it and packing it away in a large box for next year. We cleaned part of the house but the whole house will need a deep clean just before the others leave. I helped Kate wrap up posters and clean some things and take down spare mosquito nets and clear my room out. I also picked my cases ready to go. It was a weird feeling packing everything away. I got my final turtle stats. In the picture NS = Night Surveys, PN = Possible Nests, AN = Attempted Nests; FC = False Crawls, I think the others are pretty self explanatory like how many turtles I saw and how many eggs I counted and how many nests I excavated and stuff. All of this is not including boat days. In the late afternoon Tom went down to the beach but Steph and I stayed at the house, Tom wasn’t back for dinner so Steph made pumpkin batter balls which were a bit like dumplings, with roasted veggies and garlic sautéed greens and p

Yesterday I woke up at 5:10am to get ready for excavation but it was raining really heavily so we said we’d go at 7:30 instead so I went back to bed and got up at 7am. It was still raining so I read my book be had breakfast. Kester came up to remove the data cabinet from the house as pack down of the project for year begins. Steph made yummy peanut butter oat cookies and I read for most of the morning. At 14:30 Steph, Tom and I headed to Levera to do our final excavation shift, we had 4 of Kate’s temperature loggers to retrieve from the sand and wanted to dig 9 nests to take the total % of nests excavated to 30%. We started at markers E-F and managed to find 2 nests, one with a marker but one measurement didn’t match up. The logger ya I -J must be lost as the beach has eroded away there and we couldn’t find one of the loggers at N-O I was digging it for probably an hour and then we all took turns and we had a huge trench but still nothing. We did fine 7 more nests though, including ano

Today we got up and left the house at 6am for excavation. Kate, Kester, Tom, Steph and I excavated 7  nests in total. We were back at the house about 9am. The weather wasn’t great so we spent most of the day in the house, I saw the goats for a bit and read my book. I also cleaned the house and deep cleaned and scrubbed the showers to get the paint and oil off all the walls. Tom made veggie bean burger for dinner which was really yummy. I also saw a teeny teeny gecko in the house. Steph went to bed first and I hadn’t seen Tom in a while so I looked outside and then locked he balcony up and closed the door to go to bed and then about 15 minutes later I heard loads of movement outside my window and then I heard Tom call out and I went to look in the living room and he was stuck outside the balcony bars! He has been sleeping in his hammock outside and I hadn’t seen him! Luckily I was still awake and let him back in aha. 

Yesterday Steph, Tom and I joined in with the Carnival Celebrations. Tuesdays Jouvay in Sateurs is where all the local communities parade and dance covered in paint to Sateurs, each community with a different colour. Normally Rose Hill is Pink for pink panthers hense Tom and his pink hair, but when we got there they said this year he people who bought the paint wanted to be black panthers instead so we had black paint. We left the house at 5:30am to walk to Rose Hill junction, they party late night and early morning here because of the heat. Crowds started to gather and everyone got painted up and at about 7am the Hermitage truck passed with orange paint and their speakers and music. By about 8am the Rose Hill truck arrived and everyone was dancing and throwing paint and car oil and we were covered; we all danced, drank beer and covered eachother in paint the whole way to Sateurs which is quite a long walk! Everyone was dancing with everyone and it was loads of fun, there were even rea