The wonderful maternity of the Costa Rican Turtles

The Costa Rican coasts of Limón, Guanacaste and Puntarenas are visited at least one, twice and up to three times per year by different species of turtles. This same turtles make out of these beaches their home. Even more, they make of these coasts their particular maternity home.

Depending on the month of the year and on the species of turtle, a beach can be visited by five or seven thousand turtles in only one night.

The turtles crawl, inside the beach, closer to the forests or the palm trees, with their fins dig a hole in the warm sand and there they deposit more than one hundred eggs in a single egg laying. As a peculiar fact, we can say that, each one of the turtles that are born in a certain beach, will always returns to that same beach to deposit its eggs and so their daughters will do, and its granddaughters too... and well, all its descendants will continue returning year after year, to repeat the same ritual of its ancestors.

The process of the egg laying of the turtles is total show: with maternal efforts, the turtle makes the nest for its daughters. From behind the detail of the egg laying is impressive. But, ahead, it is even more impressive to see how the turtles cry in the process to deposit their eggs.

Once concluded the eggs laying... the turtle starts off, slowly, they go out into the sea with the hoping more than one hundred eggs, survive and a hundred of their daughters gets to repeat this same ritual to perpetuate their species... to perpetuate the wonder of the maternity of the turtles.

Note: the turtles in the pictures are Olive Ridley Sea Turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea)