Our mornings start early in Ponta! If we are launching one can expect to be up at sunrise in preparation for the day. After a quick cuppa and snack you will head down to our Center where you will assist with guest preparations for their encounter with wild dolphins in the open ocean. This normally takes about 30 minutes after which it's off to sea with the team to look for dolphins, whales during season and any other interesting marine megafauna that may be around. Once located, time will be spent collecting data that includes but is not limited to photography, environmental and behavioural. Cameras can be brought along to help with the project and your images / video will be added to our extensive data base. A set of steady sea legs, a good eye and some photography skills might find you behind the lens. Depending on behaviour, we will enter into the water for observations and further collection via underwater video and cameras. Volunteers will be asked to undertake certain tasks in the water which may include assisting participants. Once back on land volunteers assist with de-briefing participants, rinsing, sorting and storing gear. Breakfast is served at the Volunteer House thereafter. Midmorning to lunch will find you doing some office work where specific post launch activities take place that include camera cleaning, capturing and sorting of days images and data entry. After lunch the afternoon is spent on various projects that include skeleton and reconstruction, beach work (clean-up, micro plastic, water sampling) and land based observationstion. An early dinner and the evening is yours. Turtle season may find you accompanying local monitors on their routine walks which are set to the tide. Weekends are set aside for you time AFTER launches. If in the event there is no launch scheduled; for example a bad weather day, then you can enjoy and sleep in! Times are generaly quite flexable and time can be taken off for surfing and other activites, providing tasks have been undertaken.