Sea Turtles

This weekend I returned to the little beach town on Tecolutla, Veracruz on the Gulf of Mexico. The beaches there are home to 3 different kinds of sea turtles and now is the season when the turtles come on shore and lay their eggs. There is an NGO that was created on the beach to collect the turtle’s eggs after they have been laid and protect them during the incubation period. Then, they release the baby sea turtles back to the sea and hope that at least some of them survive and return to the same beach to lay their eggs. This summer they are estimating that 14,000 babies will come from the beaches in Tecolutla. As part of a fundraiser for the NGO, during the breeding season, you can help release the baby sea turtles. So on Sunday morning I got to hold and them put in the Gulf, 3 little baby Kemp's ridley sea turtles. Here are the pictures of my 3 turtles…..

The video of one of my turtles......




For dinner one night we decided to try what was said to be the resturant's specialty, a stuffed pineapple. Little did we know that the stuffed pineapple (filled with seafood and who know's what else), also came complete with face.

Sunday, after releasing turtles, we decided to take a short boat trip into the mangroves just off the Tecolutla River. Saw a bunch of birds, crabs, turtles, and even a pet iguana lounging on the front of an ice cream boat (think ice cream truck, but in a boad instead).