Mick and the turtles — why we are going back to Gili T
Before we left for Gili T, Mick folded hundreds of origami turtles and sold them in our store to raise money for Proyek Penyu. Then in Sanur he fed baby turtles every day for four days — completely addicted to it. On the last night in Bali, I translated a conservation leaflet for him into Dutch, sentence by sentence. I watched his face change. This May, at 8 years old, he will be the youngest person ever on Proyek Penyu's turtle track programme on Gili Trawangan. We leave tomorrow.
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