Turtles in Cherating

I suppose y0u are all wondering what turtles in Cherating has to do with ADHD, not a lot really, just a wonderful experience that I would like to share with you.
Set off for Cherating on the South China Sea on Monday and arrived to the lapping sounds of the sea. The hotel was huge, very friendly and the food great. Our view overlooked the sea which was a deserted beach, pure heaven.
Spent 5 days eating, sleeping, sunbathing and doing absolutely nothing, what a treat.
The kids well, Lauren sunbathed and gave all the Malay men a treat (not used to seeing semi naked women wiht curves) as predominetly a Muslim country. The highlight of her week was when 300 US Marines arrived for the day.
Alex befriended everyone, did acrobatics in the swimming pool, fished, flew kites with sister, eat non stop, swam, and decided he wanted to stay for one year. Megan, did all of that and charmed everyone with her dancing in the evening in a huge green skirt. She even joined the band on stage to sing Macarena.
We ate Lobster, crab, king prawns, squid all in one evening, wow was it good.

Just down the road, was a turtle sanctuary. Abu remembers as a kid there always being huge turtles on the beach. Unfortunately as time has gone on these beautiful creatures are becoming extinct. The sanctuary collects the eggs of the few turtles that come and incubate them till they have hatched and are about a week old. Many of the eggs are eaten by other wildlife otherwise.The turtles are then released back into the sea. Only 1% of these baby turtles survive, and the survivors then swim round the world for the next 30 years and return to the same beach where they were born to lay their eggs. How do they know they are on the right beach? They recognise the sound of the sea.
On our last night we were invited to release the baby turtles into the sea. What we needed to do was to be silent, no cameras, or any kind of disturbance.
Just before releasing them Club Med next door decided to let off fireworks. The noise can disorientate the baby turtles. We all felt extemely cross that such an activity can take place next to such important enviormental work. Anyway we all went to the beach when it was calm and each held a baby turtle and allowed them to make their way into the ocean. Certainly one of the most moving moments of my life and the kiddies.

We are now back at Sharons and have just been for dim sum at the Hilton Hotel, cost nine english pounds each to eat food you only dream about, in five star quality. Alex was a trouper and eat a whole baby octypus, oysters (ladies watch out in the future) and jelly fish.

If I put my ADHD hat on for a moment, then Malaysia is a very non judgemental place to be. Not once has anyone remarked on my hyper kid, who does have his moments. Maybe the culture is much more relaxed here than at home, where I would be very scared at exposing Alex to a 5 star hotel restaurant.

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Will return with new adventures soon I'm sure.