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Baby Turtle Release

After waiting up several nights in a row and checking on our hatchery, our baby Hawksbill Turtles decided to be born at 11am in the morning…. Mother Nature cannot be predicted! We released them all into the sea with our diving guests watching, a very lovely experience, and quite a busy one, as there were [...] Read more »

First baby turtles in New Hatchery

Two days ago we had our first arrivals in our new hatchery. We were getting worried as there had been some heavy rain a few days previously and we were getting concerned for the eggs. But all went well, and we had 66 Baby Hawksbill Turtles which we released just after Sunset. // Read more »

Turtle Patrol Keeping Busy

This month are turtle patrols are working hard for the hatchery. Last night they found a batch of 119 Green Turtle eggs with our guests from Italy and France. It was raining when they found the turtle making her nest, but we supplied some umbrellas so our guests were able to wait for [...] Read more »

Hawksbill Turtle Release

Yesterday, we had another large batch of baby turtles arrive, this time we had Hawksbill baby turtles with a good hatch rate of 121 out of 128 eggs!  All were released as soon as it was dark with help from our lovely guests who walked down the beach with us to a [...] Read more »

Thank you to Nikki and family from England

Our very friendly English family are the latest turtle nest sponsors in our hatchery.  Nikki, Sam, Freddie, Chloe, Alex, Jojo, Harry and last but not least, Poppy went with the Turtle Patrol and found the eggs 2 nights ago, and wanted to support our efforts to protect the turtles.  They have been diving with us [...] Read more »