Leatherback Turtle in Sowal

Kurt, It is all one and the same...someday maybe more people will "get" the fact that we are all connected people and the land.

I think the Native Americans understood this, as do the Native Islanders...Berry certainly reminds us of the connection in his work.

Perhaps you will like this one too. It is my favorite of his work. It got me through the times my son was deployed in the war:

"When despair for the world grows in me
And I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's life may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

Wendell Berry

Kurt,

Is there any way you could go take some photos so we can see?

Here's a pic. The nest is all those flipper marks you see. She's hidden the eggs in one of three areas. They don't know which.

Re: sea turtle numbers down across Panhandle

Here's more information that just came to TurtleWatch from the US Fish and Wildlife Service. It shows a major decline in nesting loggerhead (our most common species) turtles over the last eight years. Again, more unfortunate evidence that shows the sea turtles are suffering and need all the help they can get.

Loggerhead nests:
2000 1118
2001 880
2002 691
2003 832
2004 752
2005 620
2006 623
2007 so far we have 300 nests (some beaches not reporting on spreadsheet)
looks like this season will be even lower!

Kurt, It is all one and the same...someday maybe more people will "get" the fact that we are all connected people and the land.

I think the Native Americans understood this, as do the Native Islanders...Berry certainly reminds us of the connection in his work.

Perhaps you will like this one too. It is my favorite of his work. It got me through the times my son was deployed in the war:

"When despair for the world grows in me
And I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children's life may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free."

Wendell Berry

That is beautiful goodwitch58. Thanks for sharing. Also thanks to your son for his bravery.

Here's a pic. The nest is all those flipper marks you see. She's hidden the eggs in one of three areas. They don't know which.

Thanks for the photo. Now I even better understand why the "crap" on the beach is such a deterrent. Without the photo, I didn't understand what a huge swath of beach is needed for the sea turtles' paths to lay eggs.

Thanks for the photo. Now I even better understand why the "crap" on the beach is such a deterrent. Without the photo, I didn't understand what a huge swath of beach is needed for the sea turtles' paths to lay eggs.

True dat.