Sea turtles

so I've I've never formally been employed at a zoo, but what I've done is a fair amount of sort of placements and then kind of sent myself out to go work.

So I went with a friend of mine who at the time was a sea turtle vet for a sea turtle charity.

So I've been out to the Maldives.

That sounds dreamy.

I think it would be really good to round it up to finding out what is the one thing, if you've got one that stands out to you about your career journey so far, is there like a pivotal moment where you think that was amazing?

Oh, that's, that's a really good question.

Um, the first thing that comes to mind is when I was in the Maldives, to give you something a bit exotic, so one of the sea turtles, so they tend to be victims that have been trapped in ghost netting.

So fishing nets that haven't been picked up and then they get trapped in this ghost netting out in the open ocean.

I have been reading from Goombanya woman Laura Bowen's Dreamtime Oracle deck for a while.

Sea Turtle has come to me for many years.

When living in the so-called enemy's territory of the south coast in Sri Lanka, I was blessed to meet them during hatching season and would swim with them regularly.

Trust God, my child was also born with the affinity to the slimy, sleepy creatures.

The sea turtle starts life as an egg buried in sand on a beach.

When the time comes it turns into a tiny little hatchling and is drawn to the water by the sound of the sea.

Using imprinted knowledge that it must get to the ocean and the safety it represents.

In the ocean, it will grow very large, travel far and see the world.

News Radio.

It's one of the smallest of all sea turtle species, and it's making big news.

An olive ridley sea turtle is nesting on the West Coast for the first time in recorded history.

In the past week, two nests have been discovered in Orange County.

The first is in Seal Beach, followed by one in Huntington Beach.

NOAA Fisheries believes it was the same turtle laying eggs in both locations before returning to the ocean.

The Olive Ridley sea turtle is highly endangered and protected.

Both nesting sites have been cordoned off with fencing, with signs posted to warn the public to stay away.

So it was very common for sailors or ships to land at Ascension the time of year when he was marooned there.

Because of the sea turtles that he sustained himself on were also really good for other sailors to eat.

So ships would normally stop there, get a catch of sea turtles and continue.

He was also there during a drought.

There was not normally so little water.

Why did they land there? I know the answer.

Okay, the reason why they landed there and the reason why...

this wasn't necessarily supposed to be a death sentence, is because ships would regularly stop on Ascension because the place was lousy with sea turtles.

And we find them scattered all over our property, in roads, in parking lots, in swimming pools, in drains, exhausted or dead.

Earlier this week in East End, five sea turtle hatchlings were found dead near a beachfront property, one crushed on the road, and 12 more found alive nearby.

The common thread? All had been led away from the sea by artificial lighting.

The incident follows two other serious hatchling misorientations in Grand Cayman last week.

Absolutely

... and, and I love yours of meeting a sea turtle on a mountaintop.

Well, you just shared with our audience my very best story from my, all my decades on Poros.

Shall we unfold it a little bit?

Back then, I just had my backpack, and I put my poetry and some, you know, bread and cheese and olives in my backpack to climb the mountain on a beautiful, beautiful three-hour hike up the mountain for humans.

Through beautiful pine, pine groves and olive groves, and seeing Greek islands floating in the distance.

So I got to the top of the island after three hours, and the sanctuary, the opening of the sanctuary is just maybe 50 feet in front of me, and what should come crawling out of Poseidon's sanctuary but, I can't make it as big as it was, a giant sea turtle.

Wow.

Its just extent is three score leagues about.

The Spaniards who gave name to this island called it so from the shape of their land, in some manner resembling a great sea tortoise called by them Tortuga de Mar.

The country is very mountainous and full of rocks and yet thick of lofty trees that grow upon the hardest of those rocks without partaking of a softer soil.

Hence it comes that their roots for the greatest part are seen naked and tangled among the rocks like the branching of ivy against our walls.