Last night, Amy and I spent the night on the beach with Gene.
Overall the night wasn't too bad. There was no wind--so more bugs than normal, but not nearly has bad as they have been in the past.
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| Ninja Turtle returning to the ocean. |
The exciting news is that Ninja Turtle/Speedy has returned and she actually laid a nest this time!
Amy came back from the midnight beach patrol and told me that we had a turtle. When we got there, it was easy to tell that the turtle was our old friend Speedy. She has a much smoother shell and almost no notch in the back of the shell. Her tracks led straight up from the ocean and she had dug one nest and laid eggs straight away.
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This is why they are called Hawksbill Turtles. I've been told they can
give a pretty nasty bite--I'm not planning on testing that out. |
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| She's almost done laying! |
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| She left an egg unburied, so I rescued it and buried it for her. |
It was so relaxing--we didn't have to worry about placing data loggers or a sat tag. When the turtle was there we only had to take her measurements, get a rough count of the eggs as she laid them, and make sure we had her pictures for the data base. No sweat for experienced turtle researchers like us!
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