Lorraine’s work experience travel log

Yesterday we had a new person arrive called Jamie. I showed her how to clean a tank and turtle for Kosmos and helped move and take Foxy to Mike for treatment. I then showed Jamie how to do the laundry and how we prepare feeding for the turtles. As it was wednesday we had to include vitamins In some of the fish. 2 new volunteers arrived, Manon from France and Lisa from Germany. We all said goodbye to Amy as she got a taxi to the airport but then she arrived back about an hour later as she realised her flight was actually on Thursday not Wednesday! By the afternoon all the turtles and tanks that needed cleaning were done and by 3pm we were packing the van and car to take Odessyus and Moody to be released! Adam and I went with Mike, Dagne and Katerina and Eve drove the other car with Amy, Flo, Jamie and Gabby. Moody was very active in the car, trying to hop out of the box so we decided he was first to be released. When we got to the beach we placed the turtles boxes near the sea an

Today Adam and I had a really fun day off. We took a day trip to the Island Aegina which was a 40 min trip on the flying Dolphin boat. We started the day by attempting to get the bus to Pireaus Port but the bus driver ignored our hail so we got a taxi instead. We then got the boat over to Aegina. It was like an aeroplane inside! Once we were over on the island we hired a Quad bike for Adam to drive us around to see all the sites. We drove past the Temple of Apollo as it was closed today but we could see it from the road anyway, we then took the scenic coastal road to the Temple of Aphaia. It was a really nice ruin to visit and much quieter than the Acropolis! We looked around for a while before Adam drove us to Agia Marina beach where we had Pizza and Cheesy chips for lunch before going for a swim in the sea. The water was crystal clear and we could see lots of little fish. After spending about an hour at the beach we headed to the Monastery of Agios Nektarios and admired it from o