Sea Turtle Season Is Back

Sharon Parisi - they do it here as well. We have the Marine Center in Ponce inlet, and they pick injured sea animals and birds. Here is the photo of the release in 2011, but this event happens every year

Bruce Hicks - very interesting. I Google and found an article in Wikipedia about the Green Turtle farm there. Quite controversial, though.

I was a bit surprised by 7 year, that you mentioned, it takes to come to lay eggs. Here we are told that it is about 25 years. Checked Wikipedia for green turtles, and seems nobody knows for sure. This is what they say "It is speculated that they take twenty to fifty years to reach sexual maturity."

Troy Erickson - it is hurting the city, of course. It is not easy to keep the beaches completely dark, and it is hurting resorts, as when there is no light, there is no fun :)

Christine Donovan - my grandson once went to the beach very early, when it was completely dark, and watched the turtle laying eggs. I have never seen it, though I have seen a turtle.

Here is the photo taken by my grandson. the turtle is returning to the ocean, all covered with sand after digging and then covering the nest. It was already not dark, so he could take the picture, and we simply made it lighter

Ron and Alexandra Seigel - oh, they sure are...

Christine Donovan - oh, absolutely. I still envy him. But at least we once adopted 3 nests, and were present when the Turtle Patrol people were opening the ensts after the hatchlings left to see if any of them could not make it, and there were 14, that cold not get out of the deep nest, and this was the experience of my life

Mike Frazier - you sure do. You have turtles, and you have rules to go with it. You might not have fines like ours, but your ordinance protects the turtles the same way as ours. Here is the link to the information about Sea Turtles in Walton County, FL.