Tortugas or Turtles

Oh, I guess I am on a roll....here are two more pictures about my Ixtapa experience.  They had a conservation program there for turtles and one of the hotels had a little bin where turtle eggs were hatched. Then the little turtles were released throughout the weeks in late afternoon into the sea. Usually a group experience.  If you were wondering...the first picture is a cute sign about keeping the area clean....

The second picture is of a baby turtle or ,tortuga in Spanish, that the attendant brought out for me to take and release into the ocean on the beach.  It was so cute.  Usually they release more at a time but I guess I came on the wrong day.   We walked to the water and I laid the little squirt on the sand..it crawled it's way into the waves and swam away.  There were no birds around at that time so I'm hoping it did OK....lots of eggs are laid by the mommy turtles on the beaches at night during this time of year and then they swim off...talk about abandonment...I was so taken by this I came back the next day and helped release three more...but had used up all my digital photo space...however I did get them on my camcorder.

Maria