Wednesday 22 April 2015

road trip and moving

Went back to cemp from Kota Kinabalu on the 19th of April. I had a really nice few days in KK.
Back at camp I got to enjoy yet another beautiful sunset and a dissection of a turtle,
We found it almost dead on the beach and put in in a box with a little seawater to protect it from the stray dogs. Unfortunately a few minutes later she died.
She was a Green Turtle around 6 years old.
She was very skinny.
We put her on ice to preserve her for dissection the day after.
The dissection was interesting and yucky at the same time.
She had no plastic in her, or any signs any trauma or any wounds, Her organs looked healthy. We don't know what caused her death or why she was so skinny. Our best guess is some kind of infection or virus.

We're having really busy days in camp the coming week. We're rebuilding Pom Pom, and I'll be moving over there May 5th.
April 30th I'm heading over to Kota Kinabalu together with my 40 kg luggage, one tent, one camp bed, one fan and one matress (puh).
In KK I'll buy all we need to Pom Pom for the kitchen, toilets and showers. The list is enormous, two A4 pages. Plus I'm buying some stuff for myself to make my camp life feel a bit more comfortable and hopefully help my sleep better. I'm still only getting like 2-3 hours sleep every night.
May 4th I'm taking the bus to Semporna with everything I've bought + everything I brought from camp (quadruppel puh), luckily I'll have one person with we on the trip from KK to Semporna, but it's still gonna be heard exhausting work.
On the 5th we'll be picked-up in Semporna to go voer to Pom Pom to start rebuilding camp.
It's gonna be some crazy exhausting stressful days ahead.
After we're done re-buidling camp I think I'll sleep for 24 hours.

Oh apparently we have monkey malaria in camp, three people have gotten it. I'm taking some medicin which should prevent me getting it, everyone in camp are. Tomorrow the government clinic will come to take blood tests to check for monkey-malaria and hand out mosquito nets (all for free). I think my test will show negative since I have no symptoms. But it's good to get the blood test so no one brings this to Pom Pom.
Malaria is extremly rare at the Northern Tip of Borneo, that is why the government clinic are coming to camp to take blood samples, they are doing the same thing to other people in the area. That tells you how uncommon it is with Malaria here.

On Pom Pom there is no Malaria and no Dengue, so don't worry mum :)

Best thing with Pom Pom is that I can talk to my mum and dad whenever we feel like it, and I will have internet access (wohoooo) + the diving is outstanding!!!

Here's some pretty and discusting pictures for you :)















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