Exciting couple weeks
here in south!
The nesting season for Hawksbill turtles has finally started;
the beautiful creatures of the sea are coming up to lay their adorable little ping pong sized eggs on our beautiful beaches of Seychelles. We have been finding some
sightings of turtles coming up some of the beaches and successfully laying
their eggs. The first sighting was a green turtle that came up at Grand Police beach .
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| Green turtle emergence track |
I was so happy to see a green turtle track due to the fact that I
was working on Aldabra before and that’s the most common turtle that comes up
to nest on Aldabra.
Vanessa joked around about how messy the green turtles are
when they lay their eggs compared to the Hawksbill turtles ........which is true, but I
still love them. However, for now it is believed that Green turtles nest all year round.... so there tracks are sometimes expected among the Hawksbill's tracks on the beaches.
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| Vanessa and Annabelle (Volunteer) |
Although we all know that in a
couple weeks we are going to be busy with the turtles, rushing into work
early morning and leaving the beach late in the afternoon and past normal
working hours, but we do it because we love these animals and after all we are the Conservation Team!
