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It has been a slow leatherback season so far. Lots of turtle-less days on the water. So we are thrilled to tell you that we have now satellite tagged Beverly!

It was almost 4 a.m. when my cell phone rang. We had been up late following Margaret’s tracks over the previous few days, so I was sleeping soundly.

On the days when we look and look for leatherbacks at sea and come up empty, or those times when we miss catching the one (or more!) turtles we do see, I’m often oddly satisfied.

Here is Margaret's map from this morning. She's not as close to shore as she was last night. She's wandering a bit... pretty common leatherback behaviour.

As of a few minutes ago, Margaret is approximately 20 kilometres from Grande Riviere beach and 40 kilometres from Matura beach.

As of this morning, Margaret is only about 100 kilometres away from the Trinidad nesting beaches!

Today there is good news and not-so-good news about Margaret. The good news is that she is making a beeline for the nesting beaches of Trinidad.

Margaret, as you can see, is still hanging out in waters off Barbados.

Peggy was a leatherback turtle we satellite tagged on Matura Beach in Trinidad at the end of May last year.

It doesn’t matter to Margaret that her national television debut is tonight on The Nature of Things.