Monday, November 12, 2007

Hatched on Lamu*

Things got pretty wholesome back there on Lamu. I rose very early, jumped on a boat and watched a hundred just hatched baby turtles the size of kiwifruits flap themselves out of their nest and into the Indian Ocean.
Sandy innocents, they contended not only with the shock of the hatch and the prospect of learning to walk and to swim within five minutes, they were forced to clamber through and over the footprints of a boatload of turtle enthusiasts keen to track their every manoeuvre.

* He just got married so I'll acknowledge the title as Sharath's work.

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