Baby Olive Ridley Sea Turtles!

The next morning we went next door and were able to release sea turtles that had just hatched into the ocean.  They collect the eggs to protect them from predators and then release them once they hatch, it gives the turtles a little higher chance of surviving.  

Breakfast that morning.

The guide told us all about them, but in Spanish, and Leo does the thing that most casual translators do, where the person speaks for 10 minutes and then you get two sentences from the translator.  😂🤨

My kids were enchanted by the turtles.  They were moving around so much!  

They got to put them in the bucket and then the guide carried them down to the beach for us to release them.

This is Winifred.  

And this is  José Celestino de la Cruz.  😉

You couldn't just put them in the water because they had to have the struggle of making it to the ocean to develop properly.  

Run free little guys!!!

It was funny when they started making it to the water because their little heads would bob up on the surface and it looked so goofy.

And this is Bob.

My little boys wanted one as a pet so bad.  They were actually really good about understanding that the turtles needed to be out in the ocean, but they were already so worried about them surviving.

Jubal and Carlos Zerefino.

Poor little Annie, she was the last one to make it to the ocean, but she had a large cheering section.

Isabel reading the False Prince series. 

Motorcycles must have driven through during the low tide.

Then my kids figured out how to find sand dollars that were still alive and spent a couple hours digging them up. 

Weird!! I've only seen dead sand dollars before.