Gili shark Conservation Project – review 2019
It is a great experience and also fun to join the Gili Shark Conservation Project (= GSC).
Come to the GSC and learn more about reefsharks, fish, reefs and the connection to eachother. Besides this you can learn to dive or improve your skills or divelevel. There are also other activities you can join: beach clean up, community works and much more.
The GSC runs also more projects you are involved, for example: plastic free island, diving
for debris, coral health index, reef restauration. My point of view and also my way of living was changed while joining the GSC.
During the stay you have two dives in the morning on tuesday to saturday at the various divespots around the Gilis. In the afternoon after a lunchbreak the office is calling for
about 2 hours. You learn and study about the various projects, put the collected datas in
to different databases, watch videos. You also have a lot of fun at anytime of your stay.
The whole team (officials, the captain/s, the staff of Villa Nangka and the diveshop Oceans5 and the volunteers) is very friendly and helpful. The project is not running on sunday and monday:
you have time for yourself: relaxe, explore the Gilis, do fundives or subwings, go to Lombok
Watch the sunrise or better the sunset on the beach, at a bar or restaurant. You will have so much fun, but don’t forget to smile. After a few days you will love the indonesian way of life with a great smile on your face. It is like staying in the paradise – it is a paradise.
The place is secure and all the people including the locals are very friendly. Don’t be afraid
to get in touch with the locals – find new friends. Your home during your stay – the Villa
Nangka – will become again a nice after the rebuilding: a garden with a pool, an open kitchen for your use (if you want to cook). The right place to relaxe, to have fun and to “learn”. For the moment (up to july/august) the volunteers stay at a very nice place at Oceans5 close to the harbor.
You don’t find any motorvehicles on Gili Air – you walk, cycle or use the horsecar.
I like staying there. I joined the GSC three times and I don’t regret any second. I will join the GSC again and meet my indonesian friends, the GSC-team and to improve my knowledges. to see all changes after the earthquake and how the nature rebuilt itself and also to join the new projects. I hope to meet you there in the paradise.
The whole team of the GSC and the staff of Villa Nangka and Oceans5 are waiting for you. Your age will not be a problem if you are open for new challenges. Come to the paradise island of GiliAir, have fun and don’t forget: have allways a smile on your face.