6/14/2011
Last weekend we took a trip down to Corpus Christi to see the rangers release the baby sea turtles on the beach. The most endangered type of sea turtle is the Kemp's Ridley sea turtle and its natural nesting ground is messed up or something, so 20 years ago they started releasing babies on North Padre Island. Eventually the females came back and started laying eggs. People find the nests and the park rangers take them to an incubator and then release them when they hatch. They are soooooo tiny and super cute.
The turtles have to be relased at sunrise (cause they run toward the sun - not really, but I guess they are supposed to) so we had to get up super early. Tyler was thrilled.
Here's the rangers getting the babies out of the coolers. This was just one nest and it had 100 eggs. All of them hatched.
The volunteers held nets up over the babies to keep the birds from taking off with them.
They brought the turtles around for all the kids to see.
One of the volunteers used my camera to take this amazing picture.
I just LOVE this picture. I think it's so beautiful.
3 comments:
Totally Awesome!
It's so great that you and the family went on this expedition. I bet the kids will remember this for a long time, even if they had to miss a little pillow time. The baby turtle photo is a wow. Glad the ranger got it for you.
And Koo koo kachoo they find their way home. Oliver kept saying the turtles were like finding nemo. I am so impressed you got the kids out that early and it looks like it was totally worth it. Those photos are great. 100 eggs is a lot.
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