The EAI employee took the hatchlings that she had saved from the old nest (remember the hatchlings in the yellow pail from the previous entry?) and placed them on the beach to allow them to find the water and travel to it on their own. When we asked her why not just place them in the water to begin with, she indicated that some scientists believe that the time it takes for them to crawl on the beach to the water may actually "orient" them (set their "internal GPS system) to this beach. Those that survive many years in the ocean throughout the world can then find their way back to the same beaches where they hatched and the females can then start the process all over again! Quite a GPS system. Quite an interesting ability/instinct. It's similar to migrating birds that can find their way great distances between their nesting grounds in the north and their "snowbird" destinations in the south during the winter.