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There has been lots of rain this month, so all construction
work has been concentrated in dry locations. The toilet block
has been built and, for the most part, plastered. The roof has
been extended over the bat cave and begining of the front deck.
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The aquarium dome framework is complete, along with the primaflex
outer shell. The elctricians are installing the wiring inside
before the internal walls are completed.
- The discovery centre’s core module components are finished,
so we hosted a science discovery exhibition at Menara Tun Mustapha.
We had over 1000 people visiting, including half a dozen school
groups. Naturally the snakes were the most amazing thing, but
everybody tried everything.
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managed to get the crane onto site for a couple of days and
manuvered the last few exhibits into place. These include the
oil-rig display and the drop off coral tank. The foundation
wall for the discovery dome has begun along with finishing the
cupola roof for the aquarium dome.
- The exhibition on Pulau Bangii is going well and providing
some welcome capitol in the area. We have several large stingrays
including a giant thornback ray who is almost five feet in diameter
and some beautiful leopard spotted whiprays.
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- An exceedingly unusual Bowmouth Guitarfish (Rhina ancylostoma),
which has the head of a stingray and the tail of a shark, has
been added to our collection this month.
- The ticket booth between the two domes is under construction,
and the roof has been extended over the front deck to this point.
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Following the success of the Science exhibition at Yayasan Sabah
in February we were invited to both SMK Badin and SM La Salle
to hold mini science exhibitions for them.
- The framework construction of the discovery dome has begun
and it's going much faster than the aquarium dome. The welders
are barely two steps ahead of the carpenters with the primaflex
closing in behind. There's no time for snoozing on this job.
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The discovery dome is going up, the framework is now complete
and the Primaflex is nearly done. The upper link between the
domes is finished and the roof of that section is being installed.
- The bamboo sharks are breeding, must be something in the water,
we now have a dozen babies in our nursery not to mention twenty-five
adults.
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Construction of the discovery dome is almost over, the floor
supports are down ready for concreting and the electrics are
being installed.
- A letter of support has been received from the Ministry of
Education.
- We rescued two 12ft Reticulated Pythons from a cooking pot
in Keningau and nineteen baby reticulated pythons from Chinese
medicine in Dongongon. This brings our total python complement
to 43.
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Finished the second dome and poured both upper floors with lightweight
cement.
- Kitchen tiling completed. |
