Take a day trip to Pramuka Island to learn about turtles at risk and to explore their territory.
With about fifty passengers on board, left the equipped Zenvolution Marina Ancol half an hour late and skipped in a flat, golden mirror of water. My husband and I felt the promise of a day of relaxation. Our eyes focused on the misty horizon, but our mind what swam in the sea viewed. We thought about turtles - more directly, Hawks sea turtles -. And their polished shells presented under the coral reef slide, sharp beaks in sponges Grab
One hour later we strolled along Pramuka harbor. Pramuka is part of a 110-island chain. Although it is several hundred landmasses short of its name, Thousand Islands, or Kepulauan Seribu , about 45 kilometers long in the Java Sea. Pramuka Iceland is among three dozen islands in use, and one of a dozen that is inhabited. About 0 families call home. The Thousand Islands administrative offices are located here, and the Centre for Thousand Islands Marine National Park.
The information map showing the location of the park office. The Turtle Conservancy was next door. We went to the other side of the island, the football field baseboards and waving hello to scouts in tan uniforms as we went.
The hawksbill is known as Penyu Sisik locally and by scientists imbricate as Eretmochelys . Like other sea turtles, his body is housed in a shell, or a protective case and flippers propel it through the water. The hawksbill owes its name and distinctive feature is its sharp, downward curving beak that it uses to tear sponges coral reefs. The mature turtle grows up to one meter long and weighs about 80 kilograms and although omnivorous, eats about 450 kilograms per year sea sponges. Such wild appetite keeps the reef in equilibrium.
In 1973 Pak Salim encouraged to change the odds for the hawksbill. Foreign visitors to the area and offered him trained training and sponsorship for his first protection program. While the area for the hawksbill from the east coast of Africa to southern Asia and India ranges, it remains in tropical and subtropical waters in the Pacific Ocean, extends from Korea to New Zealand. The Indonesian islands are the territory of the turtle, offer ideal conditions for assistance and care. Still, it was love of animals Pak Salim, of him. For the hawks bills
When we arrived at the conservatory who moved to ensure energetic, modest, swift-moving man, dressed in a T-shirt, shorts and cap quietly stalked the Conservatory doing chores. But he did not speak English. By a lucky coincidence, ventured another family before a dive trip to see the turtles in. Your college-age daughter, Ima, translated an interview for us with Pak Salim. He said it took 20 years until the government recognized his actions to save the turtles, while continuing to maintain eggs and yearlings until the turtles could be released into the sea. In 2012, he published in 1500 hawks bills, but in recent years, the numbers 3000 or more. He has always worked without pay, relying in all forms of assistance. Since receiving the Conservancy in the Marine National Park, Pak Salim has received many awards and a large Japanese sponsorship. The modest surroundings show no waste of money. There is no entry fee and donations are welcome.
The conservatory consists of 12 or so ponds. Six are hatchling ponds for annual and biennial plants with six other separate ponds for larger animals, vary three to five years. Supporting these mature hawks bills research efforts. Pak Salim says the water in each pond must be changed three times a day after feeding the turtles, but it's hard to get clean water. A mounted storage tank with a hawksbill painted on the side witnessed his efforts.
My husband asked for feedings, and Pak Salim turned without a word. He reappeared with frozen chopped fish he plunged into the water to thaw. As each child waiting for a meal, went the hawksbill scamps crazy for fish, crawling over each other to achieve the edge where Pak Salim standing and smiling. Yearlings gasped for the fish and slid with a flip tear off a bite. Pak Salim threw chunks into the pond, and spoke with his turtle friends. I remembered a sign in front of the said. "If you are talking an animal, they will talk to you, and you will know each other, but if you do not talk to them, you will not know, and what you do not know are they are afraid. "
There is no beach at Pramuka Iceland, so to visit about the turtles, usually people join dive trips or rent local boats ferry them to snorkeling spots like us. Our blue boat coughed a cloud of black smoke and diesel chugging on a reef where Captain Baron threw bread into the sea, a fish frenzy around us to create on the reef. Then we picnicked on the sand at Semak Daun. Back on Pramuka we bought ice and waited an additional 30 minutes for our boat to take us back to Jakarta. The pace seemed just right for a relaxing Saturday to explore the underwater world of sea turtle.
Reserve diskon tickets online boat at pulauseribu@wijayatama.co.id or they buy from Marina Ancol at the window, Dermaga 6, for Rp.275,000 itinerary. Boats leave Jakarta at 6:30 am and 10:30 pm and returning from Pramuka at 230pm.
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