amazing sights....

maz waiting for the fisherman to take us to our desert island!

well tomorrow we leave our home here in sauteurs (grenada) where we have been staying on the 'YWAM' (youth with a mission) base with sharron, josh and their team and move onto the capital st georges to take our place at the second test match which will start between the west indies and england on tuesday, however as we're uncertain of our internet access we thought we'd better update our blog on our last weeks highlights before we leave here.

you may notice that we have updated our 'books we're reading' section, on the right hand side of this page, with those that we have now completed, we seem to be racing through some fiction, biographies and also some spiritually challenging books which we are loving having the time to do.

our desert island, all to ourselves!

we had intended to upload two videos showing a couple of our highlights from this last week but with the lack of avaiable data and slower internet connection here we will have to publish a link to them on youtube later on in our trip, so you'll just have to sit tight, wait and make the most of a few photos!

the first of the video was of us being left on our desert island by the local fisherman for the second time during our stay, this time we had the whole island to ourselves where maz once again spent most of the day with her head underwater enjoying the huge array of sea life which could be found on the reef which surrounds this wonderful little island called 'sandy island' which sits at the northeast of grenada.

collecting the turtle eggs 

the second video was taken this evening (sunday 19th april) where we had the awesome privileged of being able to see a leatherback turtle lay over 80 eggs on the beach not a mile from where we're staying. the whole event took place during early evening so there was quite a throng of local people watching this wonderful event with us, there were also the volunteers from a local research centre who measure and tag each turtle, our one was a new turtle who had returned for the first time since hatching at the same beach years before.

this younger adult was just about five feet (144cm) long but some adult males can measure over six feet and weigh in excess of 700kg!, unfortunately this turtle had laid her first batch of eggs too close to the water and as a precaution the research team collected the eggs which they will bury on a near by beach, far away from the high tidy line and away from the local dogs who could make these eggs a nice breakfast tomorrow morning!

job done now wheres the sea?!

this was a truly inspiring time and one that will be a highlight not only of this trip but of our lives, probably because it happened so naturally on a public beach and with out us needing to pay thousands of pounds (sterling) for the privilege!