Turtle Eggs Night Walk

It was my very first time experience to search turtle's eggs at night time. Together with 3 dive centre staffs. It was quite interesting when a Mother Turtle has the instinct to dig the depths level of a hole by the numbers of it's eggs. But sadly the Mother turtle is about to swim back to the see once I arrived. I missed the laying eggs part! :( 

I started to learn about Sea turtles when I started to work here. There are 2 types of Sea Turtles in Pom Pom Island : Hawksbill & Green Turtles.

Hawksbill Turtles

• Spend most of their time in the water but they are good climbers on land in order to get to the sandy areas to deposit their eggs.
• The main source of food is sponges.They also consume jellyfish, fish, mollusks, crustaceans, and worms to satisfy their need for food.
• Female Hawksbill could lay from 100 to 150 eggs at a time. It will take approximately 60 days for the eggs to hatch.

Green Turtle

• Can stay under water for as long as five hours. They are deep divers too but have to come up regularly for air.
• As new hatchlings entering the water they are meat eaters. When they are about 3 years of age though they change to being vegetarians so they won’t be eating any type of meat in the water. They consume algae and sea grass which isn’t very filling so they consume large amounts of it every day.
• Males will return to the location where they were born annually for the mating process

Source: http://www.seaturtle-world.com/green-sea-turtle/

Started to collect the eggs and placed into a pail.






Deep hole of nest 

Replaced the eggs into a Human Made Sea Turtle nest and wait around 2 months for it to hatch.

Call me MAORI

My very first piece of sketch - inspired by my first love, Walter.

I love to draw since I was a little. It help me to express my feeling . Walter, my first love was the first person who inspired me to sketch something when he found out my talent. So he asked me to draw something about him . Well, maybe you guys expect something romantic but it's not. He is more like a tutor for me than a lover.

The first sketch of Mix Polynesian Maori Tattoo.

I still remember a friend of mine, Mark from Philippines who is very excellent in illustration art and sculpture making said, " Your art defined your personality." And yes, it does make sense. I draw what I feel. I expressed my feelings through drawings. Every inch of sketch is the symbol of my feelings, my emotions and my passion towards art.

During my college time, I was exposed to Maori Tattoo. Maybe because the environment in where I studying my college. Near to my college there is an old street or better known as the oldest street in Kota Kinabalu - Gaya Street. Also one of the tourist spot- lots of backpackers, hotels, italian foods and chinese cuisine. There was an afternoon while I'm having my lunch, I saw a Europian guy full of tattoos. I'm attracted to it and wonder what kind of tattoo was that then found out it called as - Maori.

I began to practice it. Search as much pictures as I can. But every art had it own story. HISTORY. So that you will understand it. What is the meaning of the Tattoo. Its a Polynesian Tribe Culture and we should respect it.

Well, these are some of my drawings and give me your comments. :)

My second Sketch of Maori for my Nokia Lumia 920 cover