Leatherback Long Ago

I saw my first leatherback sea I was a 13-year-old pimple-faced kid when from a hook in a Nova Scotia fishing turtle — a 500-kilogram female hanging tangled in a fishing net and was village. The unfortunate turtle had become rifle until it was finally dead. It was then shot repeatedly with a .22-calibre have to this impressive turtle, the largest the worst introduction anyone could visitor to maritime Canada. Fifty in the world and one that’s a regular summer these leathery reptiles nest on years later, I went to Trinidad to see where ashore to nest in the cool of the sandy beaches. Typically, sea turtles come hauled herself onto the beach in the night, but on this one day, a large female I immediately worried that the turtle heat of midday and began to lay her eggs. before she had finished nesting, so I would overheat and abandon her clutch over her head and shoulders to keep repeatedly poured buckets of ocean water dozen buckets of water, the mother turtle her cool. After 30 minutes and half a herself back to the sea. It was a good successfully covered her nest and dragged way to ease a disturbing childhood memory.a