A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 216

Welcome back. Today we are heading down to a Sea Turtle hatchery in Mexico. At this hatchery they collect the Sea Turtle eggs after they have been laid by the turtles and then they are re buried in a secure area. Once the little hatching's emerge from the sand they are collected and released in the sand along the waters edge. You might be asking yourself why even collect them. Sea Turtle eggs are still being illegally collected for human consumption in some parts of Mexico and this is one way to help the survival of the hatching's.

Today's picture is of a head started Green Turtle.This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 60 mm lens


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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 214

Welcome back.This picture is of a Leatherback Sea Turtle hatchling as it makes its way down the beach towards the ocean.Hopefully this little guy will be one of the lucky ones that is able to survive and be able to make it back to this very beach 15 to 20 years from now to lay its own clutch of eggs.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 70-200 mm lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 181

Welcome back. Today we are going to Mexico. This picture is of a group of Olive Ridley hatchlings that were making their way down the beach towards the water.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 60 mm lens.

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 178

Welcome back. Today we are heading down to the British Virgin Islands. This picture is of a Leatherback Sea Turtle hatchling that has just hatched and is crawling down to the ocean.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 60 mm lens.

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 165

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to Mexico. This is a picture of a Green Sea Turtle that is being head started at a hatchery. After this turtle reaches ! year old it will be released into the ocean.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 60 mm lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 154

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to the British Virgin Islands. This picture is of a Leatherback hatchling. This hatchling was dug out of a nest that had hatched 2 days prior to digging. We were counting all the eggs that had hatched as well as the ones that did not.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 60 mm lens


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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 150

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to Mexico. This picture is of a few Green Sea Turtle hatchlings that have emerged from their nest at a Sea Turtle hatchery. After this picture was taken they were brought down to the waters edge to be allowed to crawl down the beach and into the ocean.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 60 mm lens.


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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 123

Welcome back to a Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to The British Virgin Islands to Tortolla. This is a picture of a Leatherback hatchling as it makes its way along the beach.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 60mm lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 122

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to Colima Mexico. This picture is of my little assistant that was helping me at a turtle hatchery. She is releasing an Olive Ridley Sea Turtle hatchling that has just emerged from its nest in the hatchery.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 28-200 mm lens


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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 97

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to The British Virgin Islands. This picture is of a Leatherback sea turtle hatchling as it makes its way down the beach towards the ocean.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 60mm lens

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3 days until the great turtle adventure starts. Follow along as I and 2 Green Sea Turtles make our way from Vancouver Canada to Tumon Bay Guam

A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 84

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back down to the British Virgin Islands. This picture is of a Leatherback Sea Turtle Hatchling that is just about to get swept out into the ocean. My only hope is that this hatchling will return to this beach in 13-15 years and lay her own nests.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D100 camera with a 60 mm lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 80

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back down to Mexico. This picture is of a group of a few hundred Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas) that have just hatched and are starting to move down the beach.

This Picture was taken with a Nikon D100 with a 60 mm macro lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 69

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today I have decided to show a picture that shows the struggle of being a Sea Turtle hatchling on the beach. There are many predators that are waiting on an easy meal and the common beach crab is no exception they wait for the hatchlings to emerge and then grab them by their flippers and drag them down into their burrows buried in the sand.
This picture was taken with a 70-200 mm lens

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A Sea Turtle picture a day # 66

Welcome back to aA Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back down to Colima Mexico to a Green Sea Turtle nesting beach.
This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)Hatchling right as it is about to be swept off of the beach and out into the ocean.
This picture was taken with a 60mm lens
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A Sea Turtle picture a day # 62

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back down to Colima Mexico to a Sea Turtle hatchery that I have volunteered at. At the Hatchery we collect the eggs from the nests right after the turtles lay them to protect them from poachers. In 45-55 days the hatchlings emerge. We then count and collect them from their nests and release them along the beach.
This picture is of a little Mexican girl who's dad volunteered to help at the hatchery holding a newly hatched Green Sea Turtle Hatchling.
This picture was taken with a 70-200 mm Lens
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A Sea Turtle picture a day # 61

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back down to The British Virgin Islands. This picture is of a Leatherback Sea turtle. The Leatherback is the only species of Sea Turtle that does not have a hard shell. Instead it has a hard leathery skin that has 7 ridges running down the entire length of its body. This hatchling was just starting its journey down the beach towards the ocean.
This picture was taken with a 60 mm lens
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A Sea Turtle picture a day # 58

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are going to be heading back down to Mexico. This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchling that is making its first crawl in the sand down to the beach.
This turtle was raised in a hatchery. In Mexico people still eat Sea Turtle eggs. So turtle eggs are gathered and reburied in protected areas and after they hatch the babies are released into the ocean.
Hopefully in 12 to 20 years this hatchling if it is a girl will crawl back up this beach and lay her own set of eggs.

This picture was taken with a 60 mm Macro lens

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A Sea Turtle picture a day # 55

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down south of the border to Mexico. This picture is of a group of Green Sea Turtle hatchlings that were heading thru the vegetation to the water. Their nest had been laid up in the area of the beach where grass and plants met the sand. In the early morning these plants have flowers that open up. The contrast between the hatchlings and the flowers really caught my attention. The flowers are less than 2 inches tall.
This picture was taken with a 60 mm lens
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A Sea Turtle picture a day #42

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading south of the border to Colima Mexico. Last summer I spent 2 weeks volunteering at a turtle hatchery.My duties included cleaning the tanks every morning helping the staff count and bury eggs that had been collected the night before and releasing hatching's that had hatched.
This picture is of a few Green Sea Turtles(Chelonia mydas) hatching's that have just hatched
This picture was taken with a 60 mm lens
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A Sea Turtle picture a day #40

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are traveling down to The British Virgin Islands to Joshias Beach. This young boy became interested in me digging a hole in the sand. What he didn't know when I started was that I was digging up a Leatherback Sea turtle nest that had hatched the day before. I was doing this to count the eggs that had hatched as well as the ones that did not. I was also looking for any hatching's that were still buried in the nest. We found this hatchling near the bottom of the nest. After this picture was taken the hatchling was allowed to crawl down the beach to the ocean.
This picture was taken with a 70-200 mm lens
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