Bartolome Island
The sea turtles are nesting throughout the archipelago. They usually come to shore in the evening or night to dig their egg chambers, drop around 80 soft shelled eggs and then cover them with layer after layer of sand. Male sea turtles almost never come on shore, but sometimes during the day the females come right up into the surf and even onto the beach in an effort to escape the attention of the extremely persistent, amorous males. This morning we hiked across a small golden sand dune on Bartolome Island to reach a favorite turtle nesting beach. We were delighted to find many turtles just off the shore. In this picture you see Jim Napoli, the Polaris’ video chronicler, taking close up footage of sea turtles for the documentary video that he produces here on board and offers to our guests on the last day of our voyage. Jim is from Boston originally and now lives in Canada when he is not here with us filming in these incredible islands.
The sea turtles are nesting throughout the archipelago. They usually come to shore in the evening or night to dig their egg chambers, drop around 80 soft shelled eggs and then cover them with layer after layer of sand. Male sea turtles almost never come on shore, but sometimes during the day the females come right up into the surf and even onto the beach in an effort to escape the attention of the extremely persistent, amorous males. This morning we hiked across a small golden sand dune on Bartolome Island to reach a favorite turtle nesting beach. We were delighted to find many turtles just off the shore. In this picture you see Jim Napoli, the Polaris’ video chronicler, taking close up footage of sea turtles for the documentary video that he produces here on board and offers to our guests on the last day of our voyage. Jim is from Boston originally and now lives in Canada when he is not here with us filming in these incredible islands.
