The Adventures of Holly and Steph (and David): Turtles, Turtles Turtles

Turtles Eh?

So It's that time of year for the turtles. Time to get together and do the birds and the bees thing. The turtle Stalk.
I say it like it's something Blase but it's something incredible to experience. No not the Turtles in union but the aftermath. When the female comes ashore to lay her eggs.

We scoped it out after doing a little research and headed down to a place called Jurabi Beach, or Turtle Beach which is on the West side of the cape, about a 30-40 minute drive.
Holly said..."We have to go there, that's where the turtles go to lay their eggs", we later confirmed that they didn't just go to that one beach, they went to the whole coast. Wayne summed the comment up perfectly by saying "Is there a special beacon on that beach that makes them all come there?" hehe...Silly.

So we went down about an hour before dark and looked around, saw some turtle action going on and decided that that would be the place we would come back to. After dinner and just after dark we headed over and not a second after setting foot on the beach we had a girl rush up to us telling that they were watching a turtle, please be quiet she said in her German accent.
We headed over and though there were stars in the sky the moon wasn't, so all we could see was a dark shadow flicking sand out of its nest. How cool! It's surreal being that close to what is probably a myth to all of us who don't live near warm waters. Very cool indeed. We did take a sneaky photo with flash when the German's had gone to capture the moment, I think Mrs Turtle was a bit busy to care.

Here is the turtle, we didn't want to get too close, her head is facing us. We will be heading down for an early morning visit soon as they will soon be hatching. Very exciting :)

We're moving out of our house-sitting house tomorrow, Tuesday as the American family is coming back from their holiday. Our last move in Exmouth before we leave, and we're heading to Karijini on the 17th.

Other than this there is not a lot happening in our little world, we're just existing and looking forward to the next moves. Stephanie may possibly be making this blog a true "Holly and Steph" blog again as she might be joining us in Bali while we're there, From what we can see Bali looks amazing. Temples, Monkey forests, snorkelling etc...and cheap hotels! Good times.

I think that's all for now, we'll check back in when something interesting happens,
Ciao for now,