The Diaries
 
November 12th 2008
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- Will the 2008 campaign be enough ? -  

The air is so limpid that the full moon illuminated all night.
The show is strange, white sand shines brightly in the night, only the velvet makers appear in Chinese shade.

In the early hours, two turtles are still on the northern point, going back down, exhausted after their laying.
One of them dug four holes after having laid in another one, these holes are used for deluding the predators, when I approach, and it is still digging the fourth hole with its back fins.
It is small and relatively uninterested to my presence; I let it finish his terrestrial journey.

The terrestrial team
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Yesterday, we found two turtles ring by excavating the site; we are going to send the numbers which are inscribed to the IFREMER, which centralizes information on the follow-up of the turtles.

After two days of west wind, the northern point curved eastward, the island resembles of an amoeba which seeks to advance by beating of the tail.

We continued all day to update the walls to understand better the occupation of the ground.
After the establishment of the plan, we proceed to the update of yesterday’s work, each person activates himself.
Undoubtedly in reference to the date of November 11th, the unit makes us think of a strengthened point. It is true that while digging at the base of the walls, we dug a whole network of trenches in a zigzag form of the nicest effect.
We almost made half of the rotation of the modern building built at the top of the sand hillock.

Will it be necessary for other excavation campaigns to make the full rotation of it?
We still have to release the top of the hillock, encumbered by various remains and of two trunks of velvet makers.

They begin speaking about the arrival of Yann Von Arnim, to represent the Mauritian part in the project.