Yea I was in Redang for a night, but not exactly for a cleanup 
When we arrived at Redang, we left for the turtle nesting beach almost immediately as we arrived later than the scheduled time. Upon arrival, we learned that the other diving group was at nearby waters and since it was their “time-slot”, they landed on the beach. So we had to handle over 150 people at the same time.
Those who came onto the beach listened intently at the briefing given by my Supervisor, except for some of them who have either heard about turtles, or wouldn’t give two carrots about what was going on.
After all the briefing and showing-around, we all went back to Long Beach. We had lunch at a different resort, and stayed at a different one. Another lecturer sent a few of his students to Redang to join their underwater cleanup, and he also put up some exhibits to raise some funds for his project. I spent the first half of the afternoon napping in the room, and another half manning the booth and educating people spreading the awareness on the importance of conserving not only our animals but or ecosystems as well.
We had another session at night where more talks were given and a videoclip was shown as well - the videoclip had numerous topics all squeezed into one, so I don’t know how to refer to that apart from calling it “the videoclip”, hahaha
Quite a number of our turtle souvenirs were sold - the turtle collar pins, the car stickers, the T-shirts and surprisingly, there were about 25 adoptions too!
Which reminded me that I should be getting back at processing the adoptions..
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