Gorgeous pristine beach, beautiful weather, amazing company
and the cutest little turtles you can find… this weekend had all that. We arrived around 6:30 pm on Saturday, we were a little late but full of excitement, we were going to help release baby Leatherback sea turtles and we couldn’t wait. Pablo was waiting for us at the gate of Rancho San Cristobal, the location where ASUPMATOMA, the organization behind these commendable efforts, has chosen to do their part in protecting this species. He told us to follow the road until we got the house on the beach and so we did (it’s amazing how obedient one becomes when out of your own environment). After a 5 minute drive we got to the camp and parked, there were people already there listening to the instructions given by Elizabeth, one of the resident Marine Biologists, on what everybody had to do in order to help and not get in the way.

What happened next was incredible; we were all holding the tiniest baby sea turtles we had ever seen and were ready to release them to the ocean but we had to wait, we couldn’t just put them in the water… they have to struggle to get there, they have to push and pull their little bodies for a few meters (must seem like miles and miles for them) in order to get to the ocean, it’s an experience that will prepare them for the rest of their lives.