Not exact matches
The
Turtle Hospital in Marathon doubles as a tourist attraction and sanctuary,
where vets care for wounded sea
turtles and educators give hourly tours of their 53 patients, including one young
turtle named Irma after the storm washed it onshore when it was just a
hatchling.
From the time that
hatchlings left the beaches
where they were born to waddle into the ocean until females returned to lay their eggs, no one really knew
where the
turtles went or what they did.
But a
hatchling loggerhead
turtle would know just
where to paddle — by reading the Earth's magnetic field.
Mama -
turtles come to lay eggs on the beach surrounding Constance Tsarabanjina,
where the team has built a
turtle nursery and once a week guests have the opportunity to release the
hatchlings at the water's edge.
Hire a car and explore, or take a taxi ride down to nearby Aligadi Turtle Beach,
where you can see
turtles laying their eggs see the
hatchlings dashing down to the sea during the summer months.
A favorite with children is the
Turtle Hatchery
where during the breeding season (May — October) visitors can see the
turtle eggs and witness tiny new
hatchlings making their way up through the sand of their incubation boxes!
Next door to the resort is a protected area of beach
where sea
turtles lay their eggs, so during the season they can watch the eggs being buried by the mother
turtle, or the tiny
hatchlings scrabble down to the sea on organised
turtle watching sessions.