Last night I saw a loggerhead turtle crawling up the beach right up a leatherback track from a few nights ago. The size difference amused me and reminded me of the people I meet at night on the beach that have never seen a leatherback turtle on the beach. They always tell me that they just saw a "huge" turtle. I ask them where and proceed up the beach only to find a relatively small loggerhead. The funniest thing about the loggerhead last night was that it nested right on top of the leatherback nest. The little loggerhead looked as if she was nesting on a big white fluffy bed that had been turned down by the leatherback, the two stakes used to mark the leatherback nest forming the bedposts!
On the leatherback front:
We saw three leatherbacks last night! I found Veronica and Juno nesting nesting on the north section of beach and Kelly found Pisces down on the south end.
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