Tortoise hatching

The beach in the town of San Juan Del Sur is not the best. The sand is very dark, so the water comes all the way to look muddy out. Instead, the beach, Madera, located north of town, really good. The beach is fine with rocks around it. There are large waves, so there are a lot of surfers who take up here. The beach south of town would also be nice, but much more dangerous. There is a five star hotel at this beach. You have to remain just out of this hotel, which employs guards. Do not go out to one side of the beach or the other. Stay straight for the hotel all the time. Hostel Casa Oro have shuttle buses running from place several times a day for Madera. Return trip costs just 5 usd per ticket. There are not many sea turtle sanctuaries in the World, which operates as rescue centers. All sea turtle species are endangered, so we need help. One of them is right here in San Juan Del Sur. By taking the Casa Oro also helps you with 12 usd out of 30 usd to the tour cost, to the reservation. You take away the evening or at night when most activity among turtles. The big come up to lay eggs, which they dig into the sand. Other nests have hatched and the little turtles are about to dig himself out of the sand to move into the water, where they will follow the waves flow in several years until they are large enough. One of the next few days expected the large turtles that come to the beach to lay eggs. It was unfortunately not this night. But we saw tiny turtles that had just stuck his head up along the sand. Turtles waiting together down in the nest all eggs are hatched. Then they move together to the surface. This journey takes two days. So they needs a beach with plenty of oxygen in the sand. Turtles life is threatened from many sides. Animals can destroy nests and eat eggs, so that they never hatched. On the way down to the water after the first time sticking his head out of the sand crab is the big danger. When they come out into the water, the fish are the major new threat. Humans have destroyed many of their breeding sites, catch them accidentally in fishing nets so they drown, flying over them with propellers, or catch them to eat meat and make jewelry the shield to tourists. Indeed, when only 1 in 1000 to become an adult. This sanctuary is visited by Olive Ridley and Leatherback turtles. The last-mentioned is the largest species in the world. An adult Leatherback can be 3.7 meters long and weigh a ton. It may be 200 years old. Generally, most turtles only 100 years. From one year to 15 years are the children. From 15 years to 30 years are the teenagers. Then they are considered to be adults. If turtle nests hatched during the day, they gather up the people who patrol the beach. They are collected in baskets and placed first out in the evening when there is less danger. Population of Leatherback wanted more, so nests dug up and collected in large buckets. Here is the 45-60 days before they hatch. By gathering owners increased the turtles survive. I was allowed to wear one of the baskets with the turtles that were hatched during the day and collected, down to the beach, where I set them free in the sand. They fought their way down to the waters edge. One should not put them directly into the water. They need to get exercise before they reach the water and the waves take them to sea. We used red light to guide them in the right direction down towards the water. Some had momentum and came quickly away. Others were a little disorientate or too lax to survive, so already here were divorced some off. White light can dazzle them and make them blind, so no flash on camera. We may not touch the turtles, since they may have salmonella on it.