Turtle Island Park

3 islands, close to the border with the Philippines, Selingan, Gulisan and Bakungan Kechil are turtle island Park to (about 40km) by speedboat from the port of Sandakan for 50 minutes.
There are the accommodations only in Selingan Island and you can observe the laying eggs of the sea turtle during whole one year.
More than 60 of Sea turtles a day strikes the island for laying eggs. The good season is from May to October.

As for the sea turtle, all kinds are endangered due to trawl fishing and dynamite fishing, the food of the egg, the environmental change by human economic activities. In Green turtle and which you can watch in Malaysia, endangered species, and Hawksbil Turtle are critically endangered species.

In a turtle island, the Srelingan island, there are three programs.
1) It is the discharge of the protection, 2) lay egg of the sea turtle, 3) child turtle of the ovipositional observation.

When a day goes down, Sea turtle enter the island from the beach, and they dig the hole around 70cm depth, and the sea turtle lays eggs looking for spawning ground. You must turn off a light during the laying eggs of the sea turtle and observe an ovipositional state not to give a sea turtle stress according to the instructions of the Ranger of Sabah Parks.
The egg which they laid is moved to the protection area immediately, and it is filled by the hand of the Ranger and hangs a net to the food of a bird and the lizard so that there is not it.
Finally you present at the scene to discharge a newborn sea turtle into from the beach.

There are a hot shower, a fan, an air conditioner, a towel, soap in the accommodations in the Selingan island and is comfortable. In the day time, you can spend with take a nap in a beach and does snorkeling. The rental of snorkel is RM25 with the set of the mask + fin + snorkel.

You are not allow to go to the beach from 18:00 to 6:00 for not to stimulate them. Because Sea turtles come for laying eggs near an island after 18:00.
After dinner, you wait for a signal of "Turtle time" of the Ranger in a restaurant while watching falling starlit sky and firefly.

When you pass 6:00 and go to the beach, you can watch the footprint of the sea turtle that there is many it.