Above are the newly born sea turtles ready for the odds of the Ocean. Below is a picture of the large gathering of people that decided to join in on this rare sight. It was a bit upsetting because Flash* to take pictures is a NO GO because the turtles usually use the moon to guide them into the sea. Often they get confused and head towards hotels or houses near the beach if they have big spot lights. Never the less it was great to see so many people interested in helping out.
We all walked down past the boats and stood back to release them. Immediately they knew what to do and took to the water! It was so wonderful. The only problem is that now a few stay back and protect them as much as they can. About 1 in 1000 that are released turn into fully grown adults because of a number of factors including humans, pollution, lack of coral reef, lack of sea grass, and natural predators that are extra hungry because of the lack of food for them too. So you see, naturally it would be in a fine balance but we have thrown too many factors at nature and have disturbed the balance. If you have time or money to invest in a project like this you should. The sea life is very important to the future of man kind.
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