A Dawn Visitor (6/30/09)

The Mediterranean Sea Turtle nests at night – which is why Manu is known to say: Humans and Turtles can share the same beach.

So, it was strange that as night shift fizzled into the rosy-fingered dawn that Mia and I got a call from Ian and Ellie on the other beach. They had a turtle still nesting.

Mia and I ran down the beach and located the other two. She was already in “camouflage” mode, hiding her nest. But this was the clearest we had been able to see a turtle on land.

From A Dawn Visitor

After finishing her camouflage, she walked back to the sea – never to see her babies.

From A Dawn Visitor