Chapter 20. Beach upgrade

     The turtle is a common first-class protected animal in the aquarium, the green turtle. Its shell is about 60 centimeters long, and the head and tail can reach one meter. It does not seem to be afraid of Li Yaolin and Lin Qiang, but slowly moves to the far beach.

     It is the first time that Li Yaolin has seen a green turtle up close in a place other than the aquarium. And this green turtle is obviously wild. Its sudden appearance here, could it be related to the increase in affinity or the upgrade of the white beach?

     “Boss, this is a turtle!” Lin Qiang shouted excitedly. He knew very well that this turtle was not released on the island, that is, it was most likely to swim up from the sea. This season is the peak period for turtles to lay eggs. Could it be that it climbed up to lay eggs?

     No, although the environment here is very good, there are human activities, and it is not suitable to lay eggs here!

     Regardless of whether it wants to lay eggs here or not, Li Yaolin will not stand by and watch. She said, “See if it is injured or not.”

     The two of them turned the green turtle over together and checked its body. They found no wounds, no trackers or tags on it, proving that the green turtle was indeed wild.

     “What should we do? Should we call the police?” Lin Qiang asked.

     Li Yaolin turned the green turtle over and it continued to crawl onto the beach.

     “Call the police!” Li Yaolin said.

     Although she wanted to release it, she was not 100% sure that the turtle was a species that could be released, so it would not be wrong to let the authorities handle it.

     After Lin Qiang called the police, he and Li Yaolin waited here for about an hour, and the people from the relevant departments boarded the patrol boat and boarded the island.

     There were five people in total, including a policeman, two law enforcement officers from the law enforcement detachment of the fishery department, and two maritime patrol officers who patrolled the sea.

     “Hello, is this the turtle you found?” asked the leading man.

     Lin Qiang, who came to the dock to pick up people, said: “We found it. It’s on the beach. Our boss is over there now.”

     The group followed Lin Qiang to where Li Yaolin was standing. They were all a little surprised that the boss of Xingzhou Island was a very young-looking woman.

     The leading man took the initiative to greet them: “Hello, we are the captain of the law enforcement detachment of the Biwan New District Branch of the Fisheries Bureau. My surname is Pan.”

     “Hello, Captain Pan, I am Li Yaolin, the owner of Xingzhou Island.” Li Yaolin didn’t spend too much time greeting them. She pointed at the green turtle and said, “We found this turtle when we were patrolling the coast not long ago. I’m not sure if it climbed up by itself or was washed up by the waves. During the day, there are a lot of people on our beach. I’m worried that something might happen to it here, so I called the police.”

     Everyone went forward to check the turtle. After a check, they concluded that it was a wild green turtle that came ashore to lay eggs.

     Since the island has been developed, it is not suitable for turtles to lay eggs here. The law enforcement detachment decided to send it farther away and release it.

     There are still many uninhabited islands around, and it will definitely find a more suitable place to lay eggs.

     After the green turtle was sent away, Lin Qiang felt a little regretful: “It would be great if we could keep the turtle to raise it, but it’s a pity that turtles only lay eggs and live on uninhabited beaches.”

     After saying that, he found that Li Yaolin’s eyes looking at him became very deep, and his hair stood on end: “Boss, I’m just talking, I didn’t think of doing anything illegal.”

     Li Yaolin said: “It’s okay, I’ll go back and rest first, you should also pay attention to rest.”

    “Well, boss, you go and rest, I took a nap during the day, I’m not sleepy yet, I’m going to patrol again.”

…

     After Li Yaolin returned to the staff dormitory, she took a shower first, and then looked at the map of Xingzhou Island on the APP and fell into deep thought.

     So far, the development area of Xingzhou Island is less than 2% of the island area, – although the development progress has reached 22%, the progress is not equal to the development area. – The beach area of the white sand beach is not even enough for 1%

     There are 2,840 meters of sandy coastline on Xingzhou Island, of which the white beach is 480 meters long. There are also several other beaches, but some of them are narrow and easily submerged once the tide rises, so they are not suitable for development into attractions such as white beaches.

     There is a beach in the northwest with a coastline of about 100 meters, a gentle terrain, but many reefs. Li Yaolin did not consider developing it into a white beach because of these reefs.

     But it is actually suitable for development, isn’t it? It’s just that she doesn’t plan to develop it into an amusement attraction such as white beach that allows tourists to enter.

     Li Yaolin thought for a while, planned the area, and entered the name of the planning project: Wildlife Ecological Protection Area.

     The little mermaid said that if the affinity coefficient of the no-fishing zone is increased to a certain level, some rare marine creatures can live here for a long time, so it can be upgraded to a special protection area. But the no-fishing zone is limited to the marine area, how can there be no supporting protection measures for the coast?

     Li Yaolin set this area and part of the mountain as an ecological protection area where tourists are prohibited from entering, so not only turtles but also seabirds can move around there without worrying about being captured.

   【Wildlife Ecological Protection Area】

     Affinity coefficient: 13

     Pollution index: 30 (Level 3 pollution)

     Operation cost: 1,000 yuan/day

     Li Yaolin: “…”

     Wait a minute, why is the operation cost of this protection area ten times that of the fishing ban area? From the perspective of pollution control alone, isn’t it more difficult to control marine pollution than to control ground pollution?

     She didn’t have any clues, and could only guess that this might be the sea god’s preference for the sea.

     The next day, Lin Qiang was patrolling the seaside. When he passed the white sand beach, he always felt that something was wrong. Looking around, his eyes finally fell on the sea.

     Elegant words blurted out: “WTF?!”

     Originally, he had worked on the island for a while, and he had become accustomed to the beauty of the white sand beach, but he didn’t expect that when he saw it today, he would still be amazed by it and feel like he had met his first love.

     To the naked eye, the water in the shallows is almost transparent. The deeper you go, the bluer it is. However, this blue is not a sudden change in color, but a gradual change, from azure to sky blue, then to sea blue, and finally to azure.

     Standing on the beach, you can still see fish swimming in the shallows. Lin Qiang even saw fish that looked like clownfish. They soon swam into the deep sea, and the glimpse seemed to be just an illusion.

     “It shouldn’t be possible. Clownfish seem to live in coral reefs, and corals have very high requirements for the environment. How can there be corals here… Even if the current environment is suitable for reef formation, it will take at least decades, right? How can a reef be formed overnight! Impossible, haha!” Lin Qiang was messy in the wind.

     Seeing him standing on the beach, Li Yaolin looked like his soul was hooked away, and walked over with the idea of caring about the physical and mental health of employees: “Lin Qiang, what are you doing?”

     “Boss, was the sea so beautiful yesterday?” Lin Qiang shuddered, as if he had found his backbone.

     Li Yaolin looked at him, then at the sea, and was stunned.

     Although she was so excited that she wanted to put on her swimsuit and go surfing for a day, she was afraid that it would be bad if her employees saw her slacking off, so she could only maintain her composure and said, “Isn’t the sea beautiful every day?”

     “I mean, it’s especially beautiful today!” 

     “The weather is good today, so the beach looks especially beautiful!”

     Lin Qiang: “…”

     Wasn’t the weather good yesterday too?

     Could it be that the boss’s aesthetic level is not high, so he can’t see the difference between today’s sea and yesterday’s sea?

     As an employee, he had to give his boss a chance to save face, so he nodded: “Boss, what you said makes sense!”

     Li Yaolin thought for a moment and asked again: “Will the pixel of your phone be better?”

     “It should be good, the latest model of mate.”

     “Then take a few photos and record a few short videos, and then send the original photos to the work group, I will put it on the official website for publicity.”

     Lin Qiang did as he was told, and his message shocked many colleagues who had just woken up.

     Is this a filter? But the white beach is already beautiful enough, why add a filter?

     Gao Zhenhai was familiar with him, so he questioned it without hesitation.

     Lin Qiang rolled his eyes. He had turned off any filters, and this was the boss’s request!

     He replied: “You will know when you come to work.”

     He also shared his experience of encountering a green sea turtle last night. Those colleagues who were still a little reserved couldn’t help but surface and chat with him.

     Lin Qiang wanted to continue chatting, but it was still working hours. At around 8 o’clock, all the employees were present. Li Yaolin held a morning meeting as usual, saying that since it was the first day of charging, there might not be many tourists, but there might be unexpected situations, so the employees should be prepared.

     At 9:15 in the morning, the first passenger ship departing from Baoren Port docked. As Li Yaolin expected, there were fewer tourists than before, and the only ones who were not scared away by the charges were the anglers.

     I thought that the number of tourists today would not exceed 100, but I didn’t expect that the number of tourists would explode from the afternoon.