Sentences with phrase «where sea turtles nest»

Snorkel in the calm waters where sea turtles nest.

For a more adventurous day trip, ferries and seaplanes depart from nearby Key West, carrying visitors 68 nautical miles to Dry Tortugas National Park, where sea turtles nest on secluded beaches.

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To the North, you have the Sunshine Coast, with Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo (an hour north); Mon Repos Turtle Centre, where you can watch sea turtles nest and hatch, depending on the season; Fraser Island; and access to the Southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef from the Town of 1770 (About 6 hours north of Brisbane).

For the tens of thousands of sea turtle eggs incubating in the sands of the northern Gulf of Mexico — and dangerously near the oil — it's come to this: Officials are planning to dig up the approximately 700 nests on Alabama and the Florida panhandle beaches, pack the eggs in Styrofoam boxes, and fly them to a facility in eastern Florida where they can mature.

Specifically, they looked at two long - term warming and cooling cycles whose effect on sea turtles hadn't been investigated, one in the Pacific where Japanese turtles spend their formative years, and another in the Atlantic, where young Floridian turtles live.

Where Kayak had been somewhat docile by sea turtle standards before, after her cataract surgery she became considerably more rambunctious — more normal behavior for Loggerheads, who actually tend toward the feisty and don't usually make good roommates in captivity.

Bacalar Chico National Park and Marine Reserve is lucky enough to have a unique phenomenon where the coral reef touches the coast, at Rocky Point, and the beaches are a nesting area for two types of turtles, the Green Sea Turtle - and the Loggerhead Turtle.

If you're not into swimming and snorkeling or just relaxing in a hammock, the island also has an interesting turtle farm and eco-attraction, the Garrafon Natural Reef Park, where you can do zip - line tours, go sea kayaking and swim with playful dolphins.

After mating at sea, females return to their natal beach where they carve out nests with their flippers before depositing the next generation of turtles into its sandy depths.

Watch for the areas where your feet sink deeply into the sand and be careful to not disturb the nesting sea turtles, which are an endangered species.

Each year from mid-spring through mid-autumn, a portion of the beach at The Ritz - Carlton, Cancun is transformed into a nature sanctuary where the collected eggs of nesting sea turtles are provided a safe and protected environment to incubate.

Ideally situated far from huge resorts and the roar of pleasure boats, the immaculate bay of Xpu - Ha is a natural haven where each year sea turtles make their nests.

«Dan, our guide, did a great job of guiding us to the prefect spot for snorkeling and was full of information... lots of coral formations, good variety of fish, sea turtles and lucky for us a whale right at the spot where we were kayaking (couldn't have asked for more).

Home to a high concentration of Hawaiian Green Sea turtles (honu), the area not far from Makena Landing is called «Turtle Town», where Dolphins, rays and the Hawaiian monk seal are commonly spotted as well.

Over the course of today you'll go to three different snorkelling sites on the Great Barrier Reef, where you'll see sights such as clownfish, sea turtles, humphead Maori wrasse (an enormous, large - lipped fish that's very friendly), soft and hard corals in colours such as turquoise, neon pink, soft purple and bright orange, schools of parrot fish, reef crabs, barracudas, painted lobsters, Gorgonian fans, giant clams and maybe even a reef shark or two - don't worry, they're harmless.

RR is in a great location 150 Meter walk to the beach, where there are umbrellas and beach chairs, the beach is not crowded, and 100 meters west you have Bright Reef where we snorkelled several times a day with all the Sea turtles and an amazing array of fish and marine life.

Thousands of female Olive Ridley sea turtles that were born on our Nayarit Pacific coast beaches return every year to build nests and lay their eggs in the exact same location where they were born, perpetuating their cycle of life.

You don't need to head out into the open waters to get a close encounter with marine life, just head to the all - natural Reefworld Aquarium at the foreshore in Urangan, where you can feed green sea turtles, hold a starfish and even swim with reef sharks!

Continental beaches, too, where migrating shorebirds forage and terns, gulls, and sea turtles nest, will get increasingly eroded, squeezed between water and buildings and roads.

In fact on Cape Hatteras, North Carolina — where there has been an ongoing feud between off - road enthusiasts and conservationists over beach access — it's been a record breaking year for nesting birds and sea turtles.