Sea Turtle Nest in Florida Keys

[Caitie]

That was amazing to watch!!!!

Its was !  I posted some more pics on page 1 and I have a quicktime movie of it all but I don't know how to get it off my desktop and onto the site. It only took a total of 5 minutes for them to get to the water once the first few guys came out. It was like a volcano of baby turtles  Glad they all made it to the water. I didn't want to see anything bad happen nature or not my fingers were crossed.

[Donna]

Deer walks by turtle nest.

[Donna]

It has to be hard on the newly hatched turtles...look at all the debris and seaweed they have to trek through. I hope none got stuck in that mess.

[valhalla]

That was amazing to watch!!!!

I was sleeping,  so I missed it!

[Dumpsterkitty]

That was amazing to watch!!!!

I was sleeping,  so I missed it!

Me too, Janet!  Oh well!  The video of the hatch is posted now...

http://www.fla-keys.com/turtlecam/

[Caitie]

I guess they had to do alot of editing because they didn't show the little last baby who was sooo cute trying for 15 seconds to flap his little fins and get over the rope only to tumble backwards into his hole. Then out he came like gangbusters trying to catch up. I wish they hadn't cut that out it was a special moment watching that little one. I did notice some in the original not there now too

[Caitie]

They posted a video of the excavation of nest 2. Its pretty neat. You can find it right under their posted pictures of the excavation