Photo Friday: Hatched turtle eggs in the Great Barrier Reef

Wilson Island, Australia; April 2009

Did you catch my video of a turtle hatchling on Heron Island earlier this week?

On nearby Wilson Island, we were lucky enough to find the discarded shells. The turtles nest above the high-tide mark – sometimes in nice fine sand but sometimes a little higher into the leaf litter. You can see the tracks left by the big mother turtles on the beach here.

The ‘shells’ are not hard like a chicken egg but had a texture somewhere between a deflated balloon that had lost its rubberiness with age and a thick layer of paint that had peeled off from damp.

Read more posts from the Great Barrier Reef in Australia.

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