1. Costa Rica Expedition! Oban High and Dunoon Grammar School 2011

2. Purpose?

3. Where is Costa Rica?

4. What are we doing? Turtle Conservation Project BriBri Tribe Trek through the jungle

5. 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!

6. Crossing the river to get to the tribe

7. BriBri village at night

8. The village children and their school

9. Sleeping Accommodation

10. Toilets

11. 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

12. Installing the water system Water Source

13. Diggin the trench

14. Laying the pipe

15. Taking a break

16. Header tank installed

17. The first sink with running water!

18. 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.

19. Getting Started!

20. Digging the pit

21. Cooling off in the trench

22. Collecting stones for drainage

23. Toilet block foundations

24. Completed toilet and shower block!

25. 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.

26. Clinic being built

27. Draining the site

28. Digging foundations

29. Construction Team

30. A happy worker

31. A well deserved rest!

32. 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

33. Trucks depart

34. Time to start walking!

35. A river crossing

36. Another crossing

37. Los Patos ranger station

38. The camp

39. Leaving Los Patos

40. Through the jungle

41. Spider monkey

42. Toucan

43. Arriving at Sirena

44. Everyone made it!

45. Pitching tents on the field…

46. Or on the platform

47. The kitchen block

48. Trek oaround Sirena

49. Shark spotting

50. Fishing lesson

51. Gone fishing…

52. What a catch! (Red snapper)

53. Leaving Sirena

54. Crossing Rio Claro

55. A few obstacles

56. More rivers

57. Keeping in the shade

58. Carate, at last!

59. 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.

60. Boat ride to the research station

61. You’ve arrived!

62. The Cabinas

63. Rice and beans

64. Washing up

65. The beach

66. The hatchery

67. Eggs

68. Excavating a nest

69. Collecting the eggs

70. Some don’t survive 

71. But many do!

72. Construction Projects Building a bridge!

73. It starts here..

74. A bridge support

75. Making the platform

76. Almost done

77. It’s finished!

78. Built by friends – Pura Vida!

79. Constructing a Cabina

80. Working on the foundations

81. Putting down the floor

82. First wall frame in place

83. The frame completed

84. Some interior design

85. And it’s finished!

86. For listening to our presentation!

87. By Poppy Honeyman Jamie Chapman Callum MacAulay JD Cameron and Emma Gillespie