Just to start things off, here is the image from last year's turtle season at the Kataliki beach of Kokkinos Pyrgos which will always stay with me - we called it our Sacred Turtle Track (apologies for the poor photo, you have to look hard):
This is what is called a false crawl - our turtle had walked all the way up to the sea wall (bottom left of photo), turned around and headed back to the sea without trying to nest. But what it had also done was walk precisely around an area we had temporarily marked with sticks which enclosed two nests - the bamboo tripod marking the one we had relocated from elsewhere. Even more curiously, it had made a very neat left turn on its way back to the sea (the up track is on the right of the photo, the return track on the left) to avoid bumping into the relocated nest marker. It felt like Kerstin and I had been given a message from turtledom about what we were trying to do.
No nests so far this year, but any day now ...
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