Saturday, March 12, 2011

Honu Video

Jimmy and Kristina onTrig Island
Sarah, Melinda, and Kristina
Our boat, La Perouse in the background
Large Male Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle (Honu)
Turtles basking on the beach
We had a chance to take the boat out today to survey a neighboring island called Trig. There were around 12 large turtles basking on the beach, 7 seals and a few feisty albatross chicks that saw their first humans today. A snorkel revealed lovely undererwater reef structures but not many fish. We did however see a few extremely large male green sea turtles. You can tell they are males because of the long tail.  I was lucky to get a video of one swimming.

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