SOROPTA

We have simple but comfortable accommodation for a resident biologist, five guards and up to 12 volunteers in the original converted house and a small, purpose-built house of three bedrooms with a screened deck area.

Volunteers will share a bedroom with one, and sometimes two, others. All rooms are screened against mosquitos, sheets and pillowcases are provided, and a resident cook prepares three meals a day for the whole team. There is a newly-built bathroom block with showers and flush toilets.

PLAYA LARGA

The accommodation on Bastimentos is very basic, consisting of little more than a wooden hut. Cooking is done on a gas stove and rainwater is collected for drinking.

A biologist and up to six turtle volunteers run the project, doing the same work as at Soropta but without the threat of heavy poaching. Playa Larga appeals to those looking for the "Robinson Crusoe" life. It is an idyllic beach with hardly ever a tourist. There are no flushing loos and showers, you wash yourself and clothes in the nearby lagoon, and you cook for yourselves. Food is delivered once a week from Bocas.