Give a Cheer
Monday, September 12th, 2011 First thing this morning we spotted turtle tracks where a female turtle had come out of the ocean, made a track around the beach and back out to the ocean. It is interesting that the people who work with them turtles can look at the tracks and identify the species of turtle. They don't have to see the mother turtle to identify the eggs, they can tell by the mother's tracks.
These tracks are made by a green sea turtle. I was surprised to learn that they are not called a green sea turtle because they are green; they are gray. But the fat inside the green sea turtle is green. That is where the name comes from.
In Spanish the green sea turtle is called the Tortuga (turtle) Blanca (white). That is why all the stakes have blanca for the species of turtle the signs are in Spanish.
Then we walked back to the turtle corral to the turtle corral to see what kind of turtle activity was going on.
This morning Bill dug but I watched my knees and back didn't want the workout that went with digging up the turtles again the past two mornings. Bill was official counter again today's total 725.
Bill got very attached to two of the baby turtles and I think if they had told him he could have taken them home, he would have. One was a beautiful albino the turtle was white and his shell was sliver with gray markings! What a stunning turtle! The other turtle Bill claimed was his was dark gray with a white stripe across the back of the shell. Both were extremely beautiful turtles! We saw one or two albinos every day (no others as exquisite as this one - but this was the only gray one with the white stripe we saw the entire 2 weeks).
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