Probably not as wild as Alaska but definitely worth visiting!
...Wayne
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Behalf Of Ken Norton
Sent: Tuesday, 23 December 2025 4:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [OM] race to the sea
Speaking of "into the wilds"...
I'm going back to Australia next month and will be going to Tasmania.
AG Schnozz
On Mon, Dec 22, 2025 at 7:42 PM Moose via olympus <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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> On 12/22/2025 2:51 PM, Mike Lazzari via olympus wrote:
> > Yes, no touching or interfering in any way allowed. Some people were
> > allow to release the turtles but used surgical gloves...and paid 150
> > pesos. According to the biologist in charge about 1:1000 return so the
> > chances any of the group that we released will return are approaching
> > none. Volunteers travel 20km of beach each night looking for signs of
> > nests.
>
> Ah, I wondered if that was at Tortugero. I was there in the early
> '90s. They were battling nighttime egg theft. We went out with a guide
> in the night. We found a new nest that had not yet been raided. (Did we see
> the mother heading out?) He made a mess of the sand over it and broke a
> couple of eggs on top, to look as though is had already been emptied.
>
> They had both "commercial" raiders, who sold the eggs
> (internationally?) and locals, whose ancestors had been eating the
> eggs for decades, centuries, forever, in their minds. They felt that the
> protection folks were stealing their rightful eggs. It was a serious nightly
> battle.
>
> Do you still get there on a small boat, through the passage between
> the mainland/swamp and the barrier islands? I imagine it's still a place
> where nothing is ever quite dry. 🙂Same dampness in the cloud forest at Rara
> Avis.
>
> Travelin' Moose
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