It was after a family function gathering, we all cousins decided to head to the beach (quite nearby, around 2kms from my cousins home) and spend some time there. It is the beach which carries a lot of our childhood memories. Like expected it was clean and calm with not many people around. Almost after an hour of water walk and play we all decided to head back home and saw a crowd gathered at the far end. There was something in a red bucket which everyone were peeking at. We got curious and rushed there to find many and lots of baby turtle hatchlings (There were 80+ as we got the count from authorities).
Here is the story!
The turtles come and lay eggs. The forest department authorities after knowing and finding the eggs construct secured boundaries and keep the eggs under the sand with a sign board indicating the date of hatch. When they hatch and come out of the sand, they are all released to water the same day. We got a chance to hold them, take some pictures and see them happily joining the waters.
We also learnt some interesting facts about them:
- Generally one in ten survives when they get into water
- They have a small food sack carried by them which supplies them food for next two days and after that they need to hunt for food.
- They have an excellent built in GPS with them and very accurate with locations they visit in their life time.
Well, it could not have been a better evening! Here is one of the video I captured:
Amusing and informative post on the turtles !!
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Thank you so much.. 🙂
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Welcome Prakash !
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I want an inbuilt GPS in me and also food sack 😀 life would have been much interesting. Thanks for sharing the information. Cheers
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Ha ha.. I agree! Thank you so much.. 🙂
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WOW, this was fabulously interesting–thanks for sharing about these intrepid little creatures!!
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I enjoyed making this post. Thank you so much.. 🙂
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You’re most welcome!!
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I’ve done this in Mirissa, way back, and posted about it too :). It is so cool to hold these wriggly babies and imagine them as huge lumbering turtles one day.
Thanks for this post, Prakash. It brought back memories!
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I am so happy to hear that you had similar experience too! 🙂
It sure is a wonderful feeling to hold them. Welcome and thank you so much.. 🙂
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Great read!
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Thank you so much.. 🙂
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Where exactly is this beach?
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This was at Dhareshwar Beach, Near Kumta!
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Well, another interesting thing about them they come back to the same place of their birth years later to lay eggs! At the Marina beach in Chennai night watching exercises are arranged to witness the experience that you had.Good for you that you had the unique experience!
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We were told that. They travel countries forth and back. 🙂
Oh, nice to hear that sir.. 🙂 Thank you so much for the thoughts.. 🙂
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I love turtles. Thank you for such a lovely post 😊
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Happy to hear that.. 🙂 Thank you so much.. 🙂
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There is a lot of activity and excitement in that bucket!
I’m curious how these turtles carry a food sack.. Let me know if you do.
The job the authorities are doing is praiseworthy.
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It was happiness to watch them. We were told that they have the sack attached to its stomach.
We did thank them for all the responsibility they are taking. 🙂
Thank you so much Hargun.. 🙂
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Okay. Thanks for the info.
You are welcome 🙂
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