Gulf Coast Turtle & Castle Pendem

Our last trip to the beach at the Turtle Bay area when I visited Navan Cilacap. The trip to Turtle Bay beach from Navan can be reached by road for an hour to pass through the river of the river Serayu. Our journey then use the motor from Navan flexible so if you like it around when in Cilacap. Fortunately, a trip to Cilacap weather was cool because there are many large plants around the road leading to the Cilacap so transportation by motor becomes uncomfortable. After about an hour away on a motorbike heading to Cilacap, finally arrived at the Port of Ocean Fisheries Cilacap. This fishing port was close to the Gulf Coast Turtle Gate entrance. When it comes to Turtle Bay entrance gate, the officer on guard selling tickets to tour the area is ready waiting for visitors. Entrance fee at the time of 5000 dollars per person. But strangely, not all people who enter the beach area is required to pay the ticket. Hm .. it seems many local residents who use the coast road entrance to a public road so there are required to pay the ticket and there is not. Once inside and look around, along the shoreline seen a lot of Turtle Bay fishing boat that was leaning. Waves of the sea breeze and southern romp splashed ashore voice broke the silence. Around the coast close to the road also lined restaurant that serves the sea (sea food) such as grilled fish, shellfish, squid, etc.. 

 Oiya, speaking of the Gulf Coast Turtle, if you see a glimpse of his name is Turtle Bay, would direct people to imagine there will be found a lot of turtles. But apparently the name was only in name only. There is no turtle on the beach now. Quizzed had inquired, from historinya, ancient indeed there are many beach areas that dropped the turtle on the beach to lay eggs. Formerly the area along the coast there are a lot of pandanus plants are highly favored by the turtles to be a turtle habitat. Since the 1980s, the turtle has not come back to the coastal areas due to the disappearance of pandanus plants and the increasing number of people who visit there. Changes that are thought to make the turtle feel more uncomfortable laying on the beach. Well, so that's why the area was formerly called the turtle bay. Turtle Bay near the beach there's Dutch heritage site of the fortress known as Fort Pendem. In Dutch, the fort was called Kusbatterij od te de Lantong Cilacap which means that means that where coastal defenses on land jutting into the sea like the shape of the tongue. The fort was built in 1861-1879 AD and has 10.5 hectares of the original area. But according to tour guide who was there, about 4 acres taken by Pertamina for the construction of one of its facilities in the area. The fort called Pendem, because the building stronghold hills are almost covered with soil. To enter the site Pendem fort, visitors are asked to buy tickets for 5000 dollars, for admission. To date, only a part of the fortress Pendem already discovered and excavated. Others have not been excavated or have been used by Pertamina for oil tanks. Of bagungan already extracted, it can be seen that the material used to make the fort is a brick without iron as a bone. The bricks are arranged neatly and sequence so as to produce a regular circles. Parts that have been unearthed by the tourism website Cilacap district are as follows: 1. Barak 14 rooms, which was built in 1877, length 103 m, which consists of 14 rooms each room with a size of 9.04 x 5.02 m, the shape of the same building. 2. Health room / clinic that was built in 1879 consisting of two rooms with a size of 8.74 x 3.75 x 3.77 m and 5.24 m. 3. Defense fort at close range there are four forts located in four locations, two forts were at the two forts in the West and East parts of the total length of 329.92 m, there are 112 rooms - the firing chamber, 49 space protection and storage of weapons / musiu. 4. 113.94 m long tunnel width of 3.10 m height between 2.45 to 4.88 m which was built in 1868, officer in the tunnel there is room measures 20 x 8 m, space surveillance with a half circle the size of 4.5 x 4 , 5 m height 2.45 m. 5. Space ammunition / munitions are two separate locations each - each location there are three rooms measuring 2.30 x 2.55 m height 2.45 m. 6. Jail space was built in 1861 as many as three separate buildings each - each built a prison there are 3 room size is 4.05 x 3.45 m height 2.25 m, wall thickness 2.50 m-thick front and two window sizes of 1 x 1 m. 7. Weapons of space there are three rooms measuring 2.54 x 2.45 m, in the middle of the upper chamber there is a hole that is used to send Amunisasi up of 1 x 1 m. 8. Accommodation space, length of 25.45 m height 5.10 m, in the room there are 6 room accommodation measuring 2.54 x 2.45 m height 2.45 m. 9. Kitchen space, length of 12.30 m height 5.10 m 3 room sizes are 2.54 x 2.45 m height 2.45 m. 10. Meriam runway, runway ada11 with a diameter of 6.10 m, above the fort buildings, six are on the ground of East and South are on the fifth runway. 11. Sebanarnya Pendem fortress surrounded by a moat, but the newly unearthed at this time along the 518.75 m, width 10 m west section, 20 m in the East. While the building is estimated untapped 3 Fortress Japan, 12 small tunnels and some of the trenches. This Japanese fortress castle built by the Japanese added when the castle was successfully commanded the Japanese from the Dutch. This structure uses a stone fortress, not so different from the brick fortress built by the Dutch. Well, after looking at the castle, and then we went back to Turtle Bay beach and look for the restaurant as a place to unwind short break over lunch with a menu of sea food (sea food). We choose the type of restaurants and close to the sea Lesbian. In these places, we ordered mussels poached, grilled fish, fried squid powder, kale, and other foods. Hm .. ga .. it's quite inferior to the typical seafood Manado Batam or I have ever tried. Once full, then we continue the way back to Navan, but before we buy the typical souvenirs Cilacap the breadfruit chips and breadfruit sticks in one shop gift Cilacap's famous main street Cilacap Gatot Subroto. To find a way Gatot Subroto in Cilacap we use the Google Map of the Blackberry that we use. About Breadfruit, just for information only, Cilacap it is a center producing Breadfruit as processed foods such as chips and sticks Breadfruit with an assortment of fruit flavors and in a lot mentahannya sent to various regions in Indonesia.