Lorraine’s work experience travel log

Today we had 8 more Kids from the school that are on a diving trip. We showed them how to clean the tanks and turtles and got them cut up fish and help with feeding. Vicky was diving really well for food today which I was really happy about. Adam and I cleaned Arya and her tank and we did her treatment for the scar under her neck where she had surgery to remove a hook. Arya still has some fishing line inside her so we are waiting to see if she poops it out, she has extra lubricant in her tube feed to help try and get it to come out. We then took her for tube feed and Amy tube fed her. In the afternoon Adam and I counted the stock in the shop after the school had bought a few things, there was no PA because it's a national holiday today so most of the shops were shut and we weren't open to the public. In the afternoon I helped Amy tube feed Kornilia and Mike put a new pink bandage on her wounds. We also helped tube feed Platis later. This evening we are going to have dinner ...

We have been very busy the last few days! Friday I was on tube feed for the day as I was PM the night before so I spent most of the day blending fish and tube feeding turtles that needed it. I've got a lot better at it which is good. Vicky started resting on the bottom and started to dive more successfully which is amazing! Hopefully she'll continute to get better and be able to be released soon as her head injury is looking much better. Friday night Adam was on PM so we stayed at the RC again and made Pitta Pizza again for dinner. We also go ice creams :) Saturday Adam was on Tube feed with Stijn and I cleaned a lot of tanks and turtles. Sofia is in a big tank but she is too small to clean in a big tank when it is empty so we had to take her out so Adam went in bare foot in ankle deep water to get her out. I also did treatment and cleaned Elise who started eating again this week so we're really excited as the fishing line she had inside her i...

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 w...