Greece Day 23
Today we started the day cleaning tanks. I cleaned Kosmos' the green turtles tank and Adam cleaned Dionisos in big tank 2. I then filled a tank for sprite and chopped up fish for feeding whilst Adam helped defrost them. After feeding Adam and I went with Amy to the health centre to take Zoe the new turtle for an X-ray which was quite a funny experience as we had to go into the police station next to the hospital to ask if we could park in front of their building whilst we took her for an X-ray. The police man was really nice and seemed quite amused and seemed to know who archelon were so let us park. We had to carry Zoe up 2 flights of stairs to reach the X-ray room as she wouldn't fit in the lift.
When we took her into the waiting room there weren't too many people which was good because she was very stressed. We took her through to the X-ray room with a doctor that doesn't normally do the turtles and he didn't speak much english but he spoke enough instruct us with how to position her and understand what X-rays we needed. We got a full body X-ray of her shell and head and then a head profile. The X-rays showed she had no hooks or line ingested which is good so we can start trying to feed her, it also showed a break in the skull which we expected as she has head injuries most probably from a fisherman taking a hammer to her head. When the head profile was taken Adam had to wear a special suit to protect him from the radiaiton to hold her flippers out of the way because she kept moving them. When we had all of the images we needed we carried her back to the car and some local people came over and wanted to see her so we briefly told them what had happened and let them have a quick look before driving back to the rescue centre for Mike to treat her head injury.
Adam and I then helped put Kiki back in the water (who has turned out to be a boy and now nicknamed Kiko as Mike was suprised to see the cloacea appearing from the tail in surgery today). We also helped with the 2nd and 3rd rounds of feeding as well as Kornilia's tube feed and washing up. I'm on PM today so I had tube feed to prepare, Amy, Flo and Adam helped me fillet the fish and weigh it in preparation for tube feed tomorrow whilst I defrosted it and Mike was very impressed with how neat I was laying the fish out aha.
After preparing the fish Adam and I went round and removed all the uneaten fish from the tanks before washing more towels and then showering before heading into Glyfada to pick up Zahoulis for dinner. We got take away and brought it back to the RC. I had a chicken pita wrap with lettuce, tomato and chips inside and Adam had a Chicken Souvlaki stick and Pork Souvlaki stick with Pitas.
Photos from yesterday's SCUBA diving sent to us by Nautlius diving today :)
When we took her into the waiting room there weren't too many people which was good because she was very stressed. We took her through to the X-ray room with a doctor that doesn't normally do the turtles and he didn't speak much english but he spoke enough instruct us with how to position her and understand what X-rays we needed. We got a full body X-ray of her shell and head and then a head profile. The X-rays showed she had no hooks or line ingested which is good so we can start trying to feed her, it also showed a break in the skull which we expected as she has head injuries most probably from a fisherman taking a hammer to her head. When the head profile was taken Adam had to wear a special suit to protect him from the radiaiton to hold her flippers out of the way because she kept moving them. When we had all of the images we needed we carried her back to the car and some local people came over and wanted to see her so we briefly told them what had happened and let them have a quick look before driving back to the rescue centre for Mike to treat her head injury.
Adam and I then helped put Kiki back in the water (who has turned out to be a boy and now nicknamed Kiko as Mike was suprised to see the cloacea appearing from the tail in surgery today). We also helped with the 2nd and 3rd rounds of feeding as well as Kornilia's tube feed and washing up. I'm on PM today so I had tube feed to prepare, Amy, Flo and Adam helped me fillet the fish and weigh it in preparation for tube feed tomorrow whilst I defrosted it and Mike was very impressed with how neat I was laying the fish out aha.
After preparing the fish Adam and I went round and removed all the uneaten fish from the tanks before washing more towels and then showering before heading into Glyfada to pick up Zahoulis for dinner. We got take away and brought it back to the RC. I had a chicken pita wrap with lettuce, tomato and chips inside and Adam had a Chicken Souvlaki stick and Pork Souvlaki stick with Pitas.
Photos from yesterday's SCUBA diving sent to us by Nautlius diving today :)
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