Nesting Beach

This is my view right now. It is early evening, there is a rooster crowing, there are birds chirping (somewhere there are parrots!), and I can’t wait for the sun to set.

Today is World Turtle Day. (Really.)

Mike James received an email from our friends at Grande Rivière with the subject line: “Your baby.”

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.

The team at Grande Riviere did not find Margaret last night. We have gotten new hits in the last hour from her tag showing her just 3 kilometres west of Grande Riviere beach.

A few minutes ago we got a good-quality satellite hit from Margaret - she's about 1.5 kilometres off the nesting beach at Grande Riviere!

Take a look! Margaret is just off the coast of Grande Riviere, Trinidad. If you haven't already, take a second to guess when and where she will nest.

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.