Tuesday, July 21, 2009
First, my apologies for only having my cell phone camera with me for the video attachment that you see in this blog. Naturally, I left my video cam home and only had the phone camera available for use. The quality of the video leaves much to be desired, but you will get the "picture". The explanation for what you will see in the video was discussed in detail in the previous blog entry, so I will only add to that explanation by indicating that I did see one more "track" from the nest today (7/21/09) - one day after the mass exodus from the nest yesterday when 64 hatchlings were "assisted" in reaching the ocean. The one track today disappeared at water's edge, so it appears that a total of 65 Leatherback hatchlings have safely reached the ocean from that one nest in the past two days. That's more hatchlings than we normally see in a whole year of tracking the sea turtle nests. Hope that you enjoy the photos and video as much as I enjoyed watching the process live!
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HOW NEAT!! I enjoy seeing the videos and where else would you be able to have such an experience?!
ReplyDeleteRight on! It was great to see them live in such large numbers. Hadn't had that opportunity in past years - only a few at a time who were delayed during the night and were struggling to get to the water in the daylight.
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