Costa Rica Expedition! Oban High and Dunoon Grammar School 2011
Purpose?
Where is Costa Rica?
What are we doing? Turtle Conservation Project BriBri Tribe Trek through the jungle
BriBri Project We will be doing building projects to help the village grow and develop. We will be; Making a difference Improving Basic living conditions Make an achievement Form a close bond with the tribe Have an Impact And make memories!
Crossing the river to get to the tribe
BriBri village at night
The village children and their school
Sleeping Accommodation
Toilets
Previous Projects… They have done a variety of building projects in the past including; Install a fresh water supply Constructing the first ever flushing toilet Constructing a clinic
Installing the water system Water Source
Diggin the trench
Laying the pipe
Taking a break
Header tank installed
The first sink with running water!
Building the Toilet! This required students to dig a substantial pit and a long, deep trench in very harsh conditions. The trench and base of the pit were then filled with masses of stones collected from a nearby riverbed. A toilet block and shower was then built above the pit. This has help improve the sanitary conditions in the communal area.
Getting Started!
Digging the pit
Cooling off in the trench
Collecting stones for drainage
Toilet block foundations
Completed toilet and shower block!
Constructing a Clinic Students built a clinic in the communal area of Namu Wökir. Once the clinic was built the government agreed to provide a nurse and visits from a doctor. Not only did this improve the health care for the community our students learnt many new building skills.
Clinic being built
Draining the site
Digging foundations
Construction Team
A happy worker
A well deserved rest!
The Trek The trek is through the jungle of the Corcovado National Park in the Osa Peninsula in south-west Costa Rica, and we trek for 3 days
Trucks depart
Time to start walking!
A river crossing
Another crossing
Los Patos ranger station
The camp
Leaving Los Patos
Through the jungle
Spider monkey
Toucan
Arriving at Sirena
Everyone made it!
Pitching tents on the field…
Or on the platform
The kitchen block
Trek oaround Sirena
Shark spotting
Fishing lesson
Gone fishing…
What a catch! (Red snapper)
Leaving Sirena
Crossing Rio Claro
A few obstacles
More rivers
Keeping in the shade
Carate, at last!
Turtle Conservation project! Whilst at the project you may help the biologists in the hatchery to clear out old nests and record the number and state of unhatched eggs. You will also be able to go on night petrols to look for turtles as they lay their eggs and during the day you will be able to release the hatchlings.
Boat ride to the research station
You’ve arrived!
The Cabinas
Rice and beans
Washing up
The beach
The hatchery
Eggs
Excavating a nest
Collecting the eggs
Some don’t survive
But many do!
Construction Projects Building a bridge!
It starts here..
A bridge support
Making the platform
Almost done
It’s finished!
Built by friends – Pura Vida!
Constructing a Cabina
Working on the foundations
Putting down the floor
First wall frame in place
The frame completed
Some interior design
And it’s finished!
For listening to our presentation!
By Poppy Honeyman Jamie Chapman Callum MacAulay JD Cameron and Emma Gillespie