Sunday, March 19, 2017

Baby Turtles!

Releasing baby turtles was definitely the highlight of our trip. The kids talk about it all the time. I even considered getting them a pet turtle, until I found out they have all sorts of diseases and hard to take care - but if you know me, you know it's a miracle that I was even considering it!
We actually had the benefit of releasing turtles at 2 different beaches. On our drive up the coast, we stopped at a beautiful beach that not many people know about. It was beautiful there, and not one other person was there! Crazy! A local stopped us before we headed to the beach and gave us a bucket and told us to look out for baby turtles hatching and help them to the water. We didn't really think we'd find any, but we found quite a few! Megan even found one digging it's way out of the sand from where it was hatched! It was pretty awesome!
Then we drove to the next beach that lets you release the baby turtles for a small price. They have the area roped off and you do it at sunset and it's just magical!
There's one little turtle!

Wave jumping was a big hit!

So was finding sticks!

Dancing on the beach was a favorite for this girl.

There goes our 3 little turtles!



So cute!

One happy boy!

Getting ready to release them!
Poor Megan, she got my hair. We called this her 'lions mane'. Good thing she's still beautiful!

Even I got in on it!



There they go!

The waves here were pretty crazy! And yes, Toby somehow managed to fit that hat in his suitcase. Yay.

Good bye turtles!

1 comment:

  1. This was such a fun day. And, yes, Megan is beautiful no matter what.

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