Puteri Tioman The Green Turtle

Hi Friends! My name is Puteri Tioman.. My name may sound like a princess but
I’m actually a green turtle. Today I’m going to tell you a story about me…

My Mommy and Daddy lived in a deep blue sea near the Tioman Island. Haaa, do
you know how I got my name.. Yes! you guessed it right! I was named after my
birth place.

My Mommy and Daddy loved each other very much. They decided to have a
family of their own. So this is how my story begin.

Mommy turtle was ready to lay her eggs. She swam and swam miles away to the beach
and waits for nightfall before she comes up to the shore.

Urrrhh.. Oh my, its so difficult to move on the beach sand… Arrrrhhh… I’ll need to push my
flippers and move forward.

I can do this… A little bit more to go..

Now where can I lay my eggs.. I need to find a safe place..

Ahhhh… I see it.. Now this looks like a good spot. I shall start digging my pit…

Urrrhhh, let’s keep digging… digging.. digging..

Awww.. I’m so tired… I shall rest awhile.

Ouchhh! Who is that shinning a torch in my eyes… Oh dear.. I hear some humans
coming.. I’m so scared.. Please don’t harm me.. I just want my baby turtle to be safe…

I need to dig my pit faster.

So Mommy turtle dig her pit deep enough to lay her eggs. It took her almost 2 hours to
lay all of them..

Ahhh I think those where my last eggs… I’m done! Stay safe babies.. Mommy will be
waiting for you in the ocean,” Mommy turtle whispered.

I’ll close the eggs with the sand till they are ready to hatch.

Bye my little ones.. Be brave and see you soon!

And mommy turtle left back to her home in the ocean.

One of the egg that Mommy turtle laid was Puteri Tioman. She slept in the egg for 60
days until she was ready to hatch..

Today is the day for Puteri Tioman to hatch…

Uhhhmmm… Pushhhhh… I’m going to use my tiny beak to push myself out. I can do this!

Emmmmm… Aaahhh.. Yes I’m out! Wow! I have so many brothers and sisters with me..

Hello, I’m Puteri.. Heyyy where are all of you going…

Hurry Puteri! We need to climb up this pit and go to the ocean..

Ocean!! Why?? Well, that’s where our mommy and daddy are.. We need to go find
them.. Come on! Let’s go..

Ok.. Ok I’m coming.. Errmmm, I’m going to use my flippers and climb up this pit..
Aaaahhh ohhh I’m falling back down.. Come let me help you.. I’ll you push you from
behind said Puteri’s sibling.. Ohhh thank you!

Finally Puteri manage to come out of her pit.

When Puteri reached the top of the pit she was surprise to see the beautiful bright moon..
The sound of the wave and she instantly knew that’s where she needs to go..

Chirrrrrpppp… Chiiiirrrpppp…. What’s that? Hey that looks like a quick snack for me said
the birds..

Puteri!! Hurrrrryyyy… The birds are coming to eat us..

Ahhh what??? The birds will eat us.. Ok… ok… I’m coming.. Let’s flip fast now Puteri.. Ahhh
don’t eat me.. Let me go.. Let me go!..

Ahhh thank goodness I manage to escape from the bird.. Hey!! There is a light coming
from there.. That must be the way to the sea..

Where are you going Puteri!.. That’s the wrong way… Those are lights set up by humans
from the building nearby.. That is not the way.. This way, come follow me…

Ohhh really! Luckily you told me, Said Puteri… Remember to hear the sound of the wave
and follow it…

Finally Puteri reached the ocean.. Yeayyyyy! I reached the water… Weeeee! Said
Puteri as she got washed into the ocean by the waves.

Ok now I need to swim and swim till I reach the area which has lots of floating
seaweeds… Let’s keep swimming … swimming … swimming…

Puteri swam for hours before she reached the floating seaweeds.. Ohhh I’m so
hungry and tired!.. Ahhh there are lots of little shrimps and baby crabs here for me
to eat!.. Yum.. Yum.. Yum… Ahhh I’m full now.. And this beds of seaweeds looks so
cozy to sleep.. This is so nice….

There we many of her siblings and friends there too!.. Puteri lived there until she
was 5 years old..

You can’t catch me… Weeee… Puteri is all bigger now.. She has strong flippers and
she can swim faster… She even plays catch with her friends.. Race you to the
surface, said Puteri’s friend.

Turtles need to come up to the surface of the water to take fresh air and breathe
once a while.

One day when Puteri was playing catch with her friends something black started falling
down from the surface of the water…

Eeewww.. What's this!! Where is this coming from? It smells terrible.. Let’s swim up to
the surface to see what’s happening..

Puteri and her friends swam up to the surface… There was a huge ship and there was
something black like oil was spilling out of it…

Friends, we better get out of here.. This black oil doesn’t look safe.. We might get sick..
Let’s go away from here…

Ishhh!! Ishhhh!! Why are you crying, asked Puteri to her friend.. One of my friend got
stuck in the fishing net left behind by those kind of boats. She couldn’t escape from the
net and she died… Ishhh!! Ishhh!!.

Awww.. I’m so sorry to hear that.. We turtle have so many threats and we have to be so
afraid to live and end up not surviving… We are becoming lesser and lesser in numbers
now… Hmmmmm… come on lets swim away from here..

As Puteri and her friends were swimming they saw many rubbish in the sea..

Yummmm tht looks like a jellyfish…

Noooo Don’t eat that, those are rubbish thrown by the humans.. They are harmful..

Oh my god! Luckily I didn’t eat that.. I would have suffocated and died.. Phewww..
Thank you Puteri for saving my life…

You’re welcome.. Come on lets swim away from here.. Puteri and her friends found a
new home..

Puteri is all grown up now. She is an adult.. She always dreamt to go back to her
home land Pulau Tioman..

The day arrived when Puteri was ready to become a mommy. She was ready to lay her
eggs.

I’m ready now to lay my eggs.. I’m going to swim to my birth place.. It’s far from here
but I feel that’s my safe place.. My babbies will be safe there.

I wonder if it will still be the same as I saw it when I was a baby.. I love my Pulau
Tioman.. The sea was clear and the beach was clean..

As Puteri was swimming she was imagining her birth home..

Puteri doesn’t know if her birth home is still the same as before but let’s all do a small
prayer for Puteri that she safely lays her eggs and returns home.

Also let’s pray her babies be hatched and reach the ocean safely too