Who's Left(y)?
24.08.11
Who’s Left(y)?
Last week’s column was a Reader’s Assimilate version of sea turtle activity here on Topsail Island. Now that you’ve got the basics down I’m successful to tell you about one hatchling who left the nest and completed the swim, but a concise time later ended up in our care.
Fresh out-of-the-egg turtles are hatchlings. A hatchling that survives the sustained swim to the warm waters of the Sargasso Sea, and lives for a bit to be sure about it is a post-hatchling, not quite a sea turtle toddler. These critters are a rarely larger and stronger than the newborns, but they’re nowhere near beating those one in 5,000 to 10,000 odds of in fact growing up. They’re a nice snack for anything that happens to soil them hiding in the seaweed.
Somehow our little “Lefty” made it out, and back, but not totally in one piece. Otherwise we would have named him “Lucky II.” This guy washed up on shore almost three years ago during Whirlwind Hannah. Tangled and camouflaged in seaweed he nonetheless made himself known to some notify beach walkers who knew where to get him help. So Lefty arrived for some T.L.C., sans his straighten up flipper. Want to guess how he got the name Lefty?
Source: The Topsail Advertiser