Pantai Samas

Samas Beach is a beach located in the village of Srigading, Sanden, Bantul, or about 24 km south of Yogyakarta. Samas beach famous for big waves, river deltas and lakes that make up freshwater lake. By Sub DIY Provincial Fishery Office, lake-lake is used for the development of fisheries, sea turtles and prawns as well as for fishing locations. On this beach, often held by people of Yogyakarta religious rituals as Carnival Tumuruning Maheso Suro Ceremony and Alms Labuan Sea. Samas beach bordering Patehan Coast in the west and in the east Parangtritis. In addition to big waves, Samas beach famous for the strong sea winds and the steep shoreline and white sandy beaches.
Samas beach sand is often used as a location for a number of rare turtle laying eggs like Green Turtle, Hawksbill Turtle, Turtle Blimbing, and olive ridley turtles.Hunting turtle eggs along the stretch of coast is often carried out by local fishermen for various purposes. However, or a number of initiatives and awareness Samas beach fishing with the Natural Resources Conservation Agency of Yogyakarta as well as a number of environmental organizations then formed Bantul Turtle Conservation Forum with members of the fishermen who used to hunt eggs panyu.
The turtles often landed at Samas beach to lay their eggs. This forum is applying the semi-natural hatchery for turtle eggs that will hatch. Usually, by the Bantul Turtle Conservation Forum turtle eggs that had been laid into the sand by a parent will be moved to the artificial nest. After hatching, baby sea turtles were placed in a managed pool maintenance is done Because of the semi-natural hatchery, then release to the sea have to wait 3 months to make it more powerful. Children are placed in the turtle pool maintenance fed ant eggs (Kroto) or chopped fish [1]. After three months, the turtle is usually released into the sea by high school students as part of the educational environment, in particular the conservation of sea turtles
On the white sandy beach is natural, you can also enjoy the beauty of the sea with Lighthouse Patehan up. It also has developed a terminal, car parks, toilets, lodging, SAR, electrical networks, praying, and eating houses. In that place, you can also watch the fish and shrimp raising effort undertaken by the Provincial Department of Fisheries Sub DIY. Some traditional ceremony is also conducted at Samas Beach is like a Carnival Ceremony Tumuruning Maheso Suro, Labuan Sea Alms, Performing Arts (while on vacation and Eid).

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