sea turtle release

[mybonnykate]

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[weimpups]

OMG Squee!! I would have DIED to be there. I'm so jealous.

[mybonnykate]

The biologist guy was the bomb, too. He gave a really interesting talk about the turtles up in the holding pen, before bringing them down to the sea -- it lasted ~ an hour and even the little kids were captivated.

[kerinda]

BABY Turtle doing the backstroke FTW!

[schmoomom]

I'm sensing your new swimming icon...

[facethemoon]

This is amazing! I love the lighting.

I meant to ask, but what's happening with Zoe while you're on this trip and in CA?

[seawaif2]

In the wild, sea turtles all hatch at once, on the night of the full moon and sometimes a day or two after, and follow the moon's path across the water to the sea. They have a light sensitive receptor in their brains that head them toward the horizon and the streak of the moon's light across the water.

[mybonnykate]

Amazing! Here the eggs are thought to be an aphrodisiac, so the biologists retrieve and re-bury them in protected plots of sand until they hatch.

[navygreen]

So, so beautiful!

[kattale]

Oh, that moved me to tears!
And my girls were begging, save the picture on your computer, Mummy!!! and I had to point out it was already on my computer... they wish they were there...