Maravillas y DefiZIHencias

Somehow, tortoises and turtles have always been a major part of my life. In California, before we all became aware of "things," I saved up my allowance an bought my first California Desert Tortoise when I was 5. Cleo was with me until the year before we moved here to stay, making his time with me 61 years. The little green red eared slider that I bought with my allowance when I was 10 went to college with me.

We learned as much as we could about tortoises and turtles, and once we discovered Zihuatanejo, sea turtles.

We are on Playa la Ropa VERY early, in the dark. The las three days, we have had 26,35 and 19 haul outs, respectively.

We are learning as much as we can about our Olive Ridleys, Golfines that are the normal sea turtles here.

What we are learning is that most of the females haul out 1 to 3 times per season. Generally one of those is not one that results in eggs.

It all depends upon whose research you are reading.

We walk the beach most mornings, very early and count. It's really interesting. Soon, we will also be counting the tracks from the little guys making their dash to the water!!!

We tend to talk to people, education is important.

This morning we spoke to a neighbor who returned from the US, closing out his residence there, and arriving yesterday to stay forever. He told us he had returned yesterday, and just walked 4.5 miles on the beach.

We welcomed him home, and congratulated him on his exercise. He hadn't seen one turtle haul out.

We described to him what look for and hope he saw some this morning.