Beinvenidos Mexico

Todd is officially hooked on Mexico. My family has been going for years and we could not wait to take Todd here.

Here is Pepe, the man who told us about the Turtles and is in charge of the Tortuga society here in the East Cape. He said that every turtle lays around 100 eggs and only one of those turtles will make it to maturity. Pepe finds where the Mama Turtle lays her eggs and then marks it with sticks. The eggs hatch in 45 days and Pepe will go and get them and then release them into the sea. Apparently the turtle's need to find their own way to the ocean and they will always remember the sand that they came in on and will then lay their eggs in the same location. So we sent these Tortugas off and it was fun making sure they all floated away into the ocean.



That night Pepe told us that if we walked down the beach we are staying at we might be able to find a Mama Tortuga laying her eggs. We walked about a mile and a half down and was about to turn back, when we spotted her. She had dug down and as she was laying her eggs she would cover them with sand and pat them down. It was pitch black and all you could her was her patting down the sand like a drum. We stood back until she started heading back to the ocean and she let us pet her. Don't worry we have all of our fingers still!