Monday 12-14-2015
On the beach in front of Hotel Oasis.
Nest site caged upon discovery by park employees.
Checked every morning for over 2 months by Richard Jackson, nature photographer.
Hatchlings trapped in cage until found at 6:30AM by Richard.
Authorities alerted by same.
Cage removed by authorities.
Hatchlings excersized and then released at water's edge. All 37 swam away. 4 unhatched eggs reburied.
BigBearRider - 12-16-2015 at 05:04 PM
Super cool!Maron - 12-16-2015 at 05:07 PM
How wonderful, thanks for sharing.alacran - 12-16-2015 at 05:16 PM
Viva la GAGUAMA. Great.Whale-ista - 12-16-2015 at 06:24 PM
Yay! More to see in Cabo Pulmo, like this big fella from last summer.
Question: how do you exercise a sea turtle?
tortuga's
captkw - 12-16-2015 at 06:35 PM
back in the day 77to mid 80's down in cabo everywhere turtle lotion,oil was sold..thank god, thats over with..I have had the pleasure of having a huge
olive come up out the ocean and watching her dig a hole and laying her ping pong ball type eggs twice now camping in dec just west of hotel Pamilla
near san jose del cabo.. of course that was when there was nothing between the hotel and cabo san loco...Sigh,,those were the grand days in Baja for
me
Turtles
tehag - 12-17-2015 at 08:09 PM
The park people flattened a small patch of sand and scraped a shallow trench around it. The turtles crawled into the trench and tried to get over the
edge. If they made it they were put back in the middle of the flat patch. After some minutes of this, they were taken down to wet sand very near the
water and released. Normally they emerge at night and must struggle down the beach to the water. The exercise sort of wakes up their body and gets
them ready to swim for their lives. These people who do the releases have been at it a while and know what they're doing.
I was mistaken previously about the surviving number, it was 37 of 38 hatchlings who made it away. One died before reaching the water. In a normal
hatching, many are eaten.Whale-ista - 12-18-2015 at 12:20 AM
^^Thanks for the exercise explanation. ^^Skipjack Joe - 12-18-2015 at 05:48 AM
That's cool. Hope they make it. woody with a view - 12-18-2015 at 06:46 AM
Quote:
Question: how do you exercise a sea turtle?
tie a string to its back flipper and toss it in the water. reel in and repeat!dtbushpilot - 12-18-2015 at 08:26 AM
tie a string to its back flipper and toss it in the water. reel in and repeat!
I do it sorta like that only I use a #9 circle hook instead of string..
This is what you don't want to see in the area.
durrelllrobert - 12-18-2015 at 10:40 AM
If you see him report it: Whale-ista - 12-18-2015 at 11:18 AM
Re this^^- it would be difficult to resist the urge to "only" report this...sargentodiaz - 12-18-2015 at 11:26 AM
When Nature is left to itself, thousands of these little guys will emerge and make their way to the water. Along the way, gulls and terns will fill
their guts with a whole lot of them. And then, when they finally reach the sea, all sorts of predators are waiting for them.
The biggest thing is to keep the most brutal predator of all from totally erasing them from the earth - Man. wilderone - 12-20-2015 at 09:40 AM
Thanks for sharing a heartening event. I wonder if, in the past, this area was where turtles came in large numbers, or if this is an anomaly.
