Who Knew?! Sea Turtles have Boobies!

We left Bahia de Navidad yesterday, bound for Zihuatanejo. I was on watch, and kept seeing Boobies (the sea bird...)standing on the water, which usually means give them a wide berth since it's probably a log or something they are standing on. Well, I went sort of close to one, and saw it was standing on what I thought was a coconut... Clever Bird...those things could be tippy. I went closer to another and realized that all the coconuts I'd been seeing were actually Sea Turtles. And there were a lot of them. And most of them had a Boobie on their backs They would float along allowing the Boobies to land on their backs and rest. Some of them have had Boobies for a long time judging by the guano on their shells.

If any of you are following Spot, you will swear we were crazy yesterday. Actually, Manzanillo has a really big fishing fleet. The Panga fishermen go out 10 miles into the ocean, then drop a really long (5+ miles) fishing line with baited hooks on it. They hang out all day at one end, then pick it up and what ever they catch and go in late at night. The Pangas have flashlights, but the long lines don't have lights or markings. Some have a flag at each end. Visualize trying to see a golf flag at 5 miles. They do have plastic coke bottles or a clorox jug tied at each fish hook junction. So in order to see these things you basically have to look for a very orderly line of small floating trash.!!! Then you have to follow the trash line to the Panga and go around. Arrg.

We are through that area and about 5 hrs from Z-town. More then,

Deb

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