Leatherback Turtles

This evening at 9pm we headed to the Turtle 🐢 Research centre where we meet our guide - Ronald. Heading out with just red light torches 🔦 so as not to disturb the Turtles we arrived on the beach.
Here we saw so many Leatherback Turtles - and they we MASSIVE! Larger than me.
The females had come up onto the beach to lay their eggs . We were privileged to be able to see the whole process guided by Ronald.
Some key facts we learnt -
- The females have to reach 25 years old before they are ready to lay their eggs
- Only approx 1 per 1000 eggs will survive.
- These turtles are FAST they can swim 100m in 10 Sec 😳
& 4000 ft down!!
This beach in Trinidad has the MOST laying female leatherback turtles in the whole world.
We made it back to the hotel at around 11:30pmMeer informatie