Well today we woke to load sof babies and about 350 eggs to bury! We had a green turtle on our beach last night and ruwan woke me up to watch it 🐢 it was really cool to watch, i forget how big they get! Theyre bloody massive!!!! So yeah it was quite quick as well so it wasnt too taxing on sleep haha. 

today we were supposed to be tank cleaning but dudley decided not to so i needed something to do. So i went beach cleaning as the tode had come in loads and brought with it absolutely loads of plastic rubbish. After ages cleaning, and also feeding all of the turtles, we had lunch and chilled out. Dave and i went to ambalangoda to get some stuff and i saw some of my ambalangoda friends. We came back and chilled more and then we released 156 turtles! All greens so it was really fast and nice ☺️

Now im ready for bed again!! 

With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️





Its friday again! I dont like how fast these fridays are coming and going haha!! We had an early start today, we set off at 6am for a weekend trip! We made a 3 hour drive to Sinharaja Rainforest where we arrived and got shown to our guide. Sinharaja is a national rainforest, massive, with dense trees, streams, rivers and everything full of wildlife. We stopped at a bakery thing to get breakfast and i got three bread rolls with stuff inside them.. The first one was the spiciest thing ever, definately woke me up. And the other two were sausage based and were nice. 

I think the nicest part was going into like a part below the track and taking a dip in the stream. It was fresh, clear water, absolutely freezing to the touch. I walked about in it at first but then found a little pool thing and went fully in, it was sooo nice i was just laying in it.. Came out ao cold but oon dried off in the warmness of the air haha. Yeah that was really nice. Then we walked back and got back in the car. 

We set off at about 1pm to go to udawallawa national park. Its where the majority of elephants live. We got to the hotel and had a sandwich and i finished life of pi ( the book ) and then we set off again at 5:30pm to go to the elephant orphanage. We got there in time for feeding and they were all baby elephants!!! (Hence orphanage) they are so cute i could barely handle it. They all came running into theor enclosure and deank milk and ate some grass things 😫🙈😍🐘 we watched them for about half an hour and named the smallest one pablo. Finally giving my elephant tattoo meaning! So then we went to get dinner at a nice restaurant and now im back at the hotel (with air conditioning and hot showers) just chillllllaxin 💅🙌

Oh yeah and there is a baby gecko outside my rom that is the most amazing cutest little soldier iver laid eyes on. Franzisca and i found him before dinner and he stayed there when we returned. He jumped on my legs and i picked him up and i knew we had a connection. ❤️ i have attached a selfie i took with ‘Tony’ – named by franzica. 

Sorry i ouldnt post yesterday the wifi was apalling! So today we got up at 6am to set off on another safari! Our guide was really nice and the jeep was soo much better this time. The national park isnt as touristy at yala so it was nice to be the only jeep we could see for the majority of the trip. We saw elephants, jackals, crocodiles, eagles, loads of birds, monitor lizards, monkeys and loads more. It was a really nice day as well so all the animals were out and about! I am glad we went in the morning because then the animals are most active. After our safari we spent some time in the hotel and set off to tangalle. We stopped off at a temple which we had to climb (also had many monkeys) it was a rock temple so you could go into like a cave and see all the lying buddhas and statues etc. it was really spiritual. At the top i got blessed and given yet another string  bracelet. Now i am at the hotel, its so nice.. There is a pool and its nice to swim in water thats not salty!! Going to have dinner somewhere tonight so looking forward to that!

With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️

Bloody hell i have been here for over two months?!?! Wow. 

Happy poya day!! Its the full moon day in sri lanka which means a holiday! Which means lots of sri lankan locals at the hatchery which means no holiday for us! Woop 🙈🐢 naa it wasnt too bad today, the weather was perfect.. Sat in the sun all day and now i am BLACK i mean proper black. The chef here thought i was indonesian. Not english. Hahahahha how joke is that 😹😹

We woke to 68 baby olive ridley turtles which was cuuuute. And then we buried 106 eggs as well 👌 then the rest of the day was literally just sitting about not going to lie haha the locals keep to themselves and there were no tourists! So yeah i started and nearly finished life of pi (the book) and topped up my tan to the extreme. The full moon brings in the tide so there were pools on the beach, franzisca and i spent at least an hour and a half just lying in them haha ao nice and hot! So yeah nothing else happened, we all just chilled! Ready for an early start tomorrow 👊

With love from sri lanka, Jack 





Yoyoyoyo sorry missed yesterday again haha so lazy. Yesterday we worked the hatchery and went teaching – we seem to be having LOADS of schools recently! The kids are alright but trying to get them to stop touching the turtles is a major stress hah. So yeah we went teaching at the temple and i taughtthe kids maths again, fractions in fact. They are too clever. I always run out of things to teach’em so i took them outside to play whats the time mr wolf – classic. It was a really nice day all the way up to when it bucketes down! We released loads of babies in the rain which was fun haha. 

Today we worked the hatchery again, i took a lovely new yorker couple round and we had like 1000 kids come today aswell 😫🙈 so yeah that was stressy and then we went teaching, the boys were good today!!! They behaved so well! Pernille and i took them and yeah they learned a lot! I taught them biology today so just anatomy and some organs. They deserved to play so we went outside and played ‘bang’ a new game pernille thought of, it took a while to get them to ynderstand the rules but in the end it was really good! 

So yeah it was a good day, ive started just taking in the surroundings of where i work and its just amazing. You kind of forget the beauty of everything you walk past haha (deep shit i know) becomming a proper gap year guy 😹🙌

With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️





Last night we had to say goodbye to the one and only Sue. The hatchery will miss its loyal volunteer (as will i). We also released a lot of babies last night and then it rained. 

Today was tank cleaning day. We all know what that means – arm day. By the end i was knackered. My arms felt like they were going to fall off ahhaa.  After we finished we went swimming in the sea and then had a shower and lunch. Yhe afternoon was spent just dossing around the hatchery reading – a well earned rest i think. And now im chilling in the living room 👌 need to prepare for teaching tomorrow but im tooooo tired haha

With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️

Today franzisca and i planbed to go to galle for the day. We had a little but of a lie in and had breakfast at around 8:30am. Even though my body clock woke me up at the usual 7am haha. We then had a little rest, i finished the third book ive read here! And packed all our stuff ready to go. We set off at 10am and got the first bus to galle, it was a nice journey, not too crowded and took about an hour. Weather wise it was beautiful all day, the sun was shining and there was a really nice breeze that kept you from completely sweating to death haha. 

When we got to galle we headed straight for the fort, i had been a couple times before so i showed franzisca round. However, i realised i had only been to half the fort! We kept going round and i found the other half i hadnt explored! It was beautiful! I dont think many people know about it because it was just the two of us there! It was so green, with the ancient ruins of the fort just sitting there! It was really good to walk around and take loads of pictures. I think this teip to galle was my facourite purely because you could explore every part of this old fort without restriction, we were jumping onto ledges, going under rock arches, walking along the ramparts etc. it was really nice. 

After all that exploring we headed back to the center of the fort – i dont know if i have explained it before but its basically a village inside the fort. With banks, jewellers, hotels, house ect ect. When you walk around it, it almost reminds you of europe! Its got that shabby, stylish feel. Like italy. (Even though ive never been to italy, it reminds me of films set in italy haha). Yeah so we got an ice cream and then went to a cafe and i had an iced mocha which was amazing. It was really good to sit and take in the niceness of the whole place. We then went shopping a little but and i got a large scrapbook to which i can transfer all this blog onto when im home ☺️

After that we went back to the city, it was weird to see just a few hundred metres and you were back into the bustling city life! We then got an A/C bus back and now  chilling out in my room 👌 just a really lovely day 😘

With love from sri lanka, Jack ✌️