A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 226

Welcome back. With all the news lately about governments all over the world changing or down grading protected areas for wildlife . I am saddened and am wanting the photographs that I have taken to be seen.

This picture is of a Leatherback Sea Turtle that has just emerged from a nest.

Currently there are 2 countries that are down grading protected areas. These gentle giants are already threatened and now with important nesting beaches soon to be developed it is only a matter of time before all we have left are photographs to remember
It is unfortunate that in this economic climate that the lives of endangered species are being pushed aside for economic gain.

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

A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 218

Welcome back. Today we are heading down to The British Virgin Islands.This picture i of a Leatherback Sea Turtle hatchling that has almost made it out of the sand on its journey to reach the ocean.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 60 mm macro 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 # 207

Welcome back. I first off want to apologize for being absent from blogging for the past few days,I was hoping to post some new pictures of Leatherback sea turtles.I was invited to participate in a research project to tag and release adult Leatherback turtles off of the coast of California.
The weather has not cooperated at all with the project and when the fog finally breaks the boat decides that it will also break.
So 30 hours of driving later I am finally siting at my desk dreaming of what could have been.
So on that note todays picture is of a Leatherback that was raised in captivity at the University Of British Columbia.

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

A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 202

Welcome back. Todays picture is of Dr Ttodd Jones as he is applying a satellite transmitter to a Leatherback Sea Turtle model in a wind tunnel. Dr Jones was studying how science is affecting turtles.
Dr Jones should be publishing his findings soon.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-90 camera with a 20-200 mm lens.


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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 194

Welcome back. Today we are heading back to the British Virgin Islands. This picture is of a ghost crab trying to grab a Leatherback Sea turtle hatchling as it emerges from its nest. It is amazing that any of the hatchlings reach the water.

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 # 193

Welcome back. Today we are staying down in the British Virgin Islands. This picture is of a Leatherback sea turtle hatchling as it first emerges from its nest.

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

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 192

Welcome back. Today we are heading down to The British Virgin Islands. This picture is of 2 young children who were helping me release these 2 leatherback sea turtle hatchlings.

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 # 186

Welcome back. Today we are heading up to Vancouver Canada. This picture is of a captive Leatherback that is being raised in captivity so that we may better understand its growth rate. The Leatherback is the most elusive of all the sea turtles. It never stops swimming and knows no boundaries. This is why the researcher has devised this tether so that this turtle will not bump the bottom or the sides of its tank.

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 # 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 # 175

Welcome back. Today we are heading down to Tortolla in the British Virgin Islands.
Tis picture is of a Leatherback Sea Turtle hatchling that has just emerged from its nest and is making its way down the beach to the Atlantic ocean.

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

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 168

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading up to Vancouver Canada. I know this is an unlikely place to see the rarest of all the species of sea turtle.
This picture is of Doctor T Todd Jones who is the only person in the world who has been able to succesfully raise Leatherback Sea Turtles in captivity for over 2 years. Here Dr Jones is measuring the straight carapace length of this captive Leatherback.

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 # 162

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to the British Virgin Islands. Todays picture is of a Leatherback sea turtle hatchling as it is emerging out of the sand.

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

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 161

Welcome back to a Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to Mexico. This picture is of 3 leatherback sea turtle figurines that are used by the Seri Indian Tribe in ceremonial celebrations.the picture was taken at a celebration the Seri put on at the 28th annual International Annual Sea Turtle Symposium in Loreto Baja Mexico.

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 160

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to the beach on the island of Tortolla in the British Virgin Islands. This picture is of a Leatherback Sea Turtle hatchling as it emerges from its nest.

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 # 148

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading to the British Virgin Islands. This is a picture of a Leatherback Sea Turtle hatchling as it heads down the beach towards the ocean from its nest.

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


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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 144

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading up to Vancouver Canada. This picture is of the largest Leatherback sea turtle ever raised in captivity.By raising this turtle in captivity the researcher was better able to figure the growth rates of leatherback sea turtles.


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


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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 131

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 has just emerged from its nest and is heading down the beach to the ocean.

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