The day starts at 8:00 a.m. with breakfast, at 9:00 a.m. We start surfing lessons for one hour a day. A professional will teach you how to practice this sport. Classes are taught 5 days a week and if you want to continue practicing we provide you with a surfboard so you can continue practicing in your spare time. After the practice we continue with the daily tasks such as collection and classification of plastic for recycling, wildlife monitoring and working with turtles.
Meals
- Breakfast – 8:00 am
- Lunch – 12:00 pm
- Dinner – 6:00 pm
Volunteer Obligations
Communal Work Shifts
9:30 – 11:00 am
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Sea turtle conservation – As a volunteer with us, you’ll have the opportunity to be involved in the entire turtle hatching process. This includes taking shifts patrolling the beach in the evenings to locate female turtles who have come ashore to lay their nests. Nests are then transported to a hatchery, where they can be monitored 24/7 to protect them from poachers and predatory animals. You will take one shift every few days to keep watch of the hatchery. Finally, upon hatching, you will assist the baby sea turtles in reaching the ocean safely to ensure maximum survival rates. You may also help in the general maintenance of the hatchery.
Sea turtles season -
Turtle season, from June to November hatching season from August to January
Please note that if you apply for this program outside the nesting and hatching season, it is not year-round, so during the non-nesting season the program will perform other tasks, mainly community work.
Other tasks – Volunteers will also
participate in sloth walks to monitoring and record the migration patterns of local sloth populations. Additionally, you’ll assist us in gathering beach litter once per week. You can expect to help with cleaning the kitchen and bedrooms once per week. You’ll also have the opportunity to take part in community service work with local schools and community facilities.
