Frustration....And Relief

So, as mentioned in my previous post, we've had one (we're guessing it's the same turtle as she left what looked like marks from a barnacle in the sand) making tracks at the Kato Stalos end of our beach for around 5 days. She eventually came up and laid her nest!

Here's a few photos of the tracks, these were taken by one of the current volunteers - Alex.
As you can see, in the first track, she walked into the sunbeds, before returning to the sea. This has been happening quite a lot already!

However, the sunbeds didn't stop her this time - she laid the eggs - all 143 of them, right in the middle of a block of sunbeds.

As the nest was too close to the sea, we had to relocate the nest to a safer position. 150m further down the beach is a wider spot, backed by trees. Hopefully this should be a good spot for the nest - I guess we'll see in 50 days!

I'll try to add some photos of the nest later, including some from the relocation - I forgot to bring my memory card, so can't add them now!

See ya soon,

Herb