HERE WE GO WITH THE RACE OF THE YEAR. No I’m not talking about the swim race from Lobo to Isla Verdi, I’m talking about the birthing of thousands of baby turtles hatching. Such excitement is a once a year event held throughout the beaches in the South China Sea. Extending to Australia and up to Viet Nam. Maybe I forgot some special areas within the egg laying beaches that are none the less producing hundreds if not thousands of turtles every year. Yay to the tenacity of these great world explorers.
When they hatch they immediately head for the ocean . People excitedly gather , party and help the little critters find their home out there. What a big home it is indeed. Turtles have been recorded in every ocean , tagged as far away as north Pacific coast from hatching in Indonesia , almost 12,000 miles away and still growing. In Japan they eat their fill of giant Jellyfish the Man O War along with kelp, coral and balancing the ecosystem to what used to be normal. Until the advent of plastic in our oceans the job they do went unnoticed. Now we’re faced with massive hatchings of Jellies and less turtles to eat them . So , Jellie’s are on the menu in Japan . No doubt they wish it could be quality fish , unpolluted by mercury and radioactive pollution but nope now they get Jellyfish. yum.
In such a short time our protective organizations have turned a blind eye to the problems we all face, but that’s nothing new as we find how upper crust society gobbles down the prime and leaves the bones for world populations to fight over. Look over there has become the battle cry every time a disaster strikes , but that the opposite way from the disaster at hand. So no change here. Only that fishing catches produce smaller fish and lesser catches than just ten years ago. The research has been dumped by the control polls that would be astounding if released. yep we’re not seeing the food on the shelves and what there is happens to be to expensive to buy. Get your credit card ready, pay the 22% interest and have a tasty bait fish for dinner. Hey this is about turtles!! Well they are so special in our ecosystem books have been written about their importance. Turtles help groom the reefs for eggs to grow properly. Turtles can live over a hundred years and produce thousands of eggs in their lifetime. Such a titan of the sea should be honored and watched so we can follow their lead. Why would such a long lived animal produce such massive hatchlings and live so long? Because the world needs them that badly , without the mighty turtle our oceans would quickly fall out of balance with nature. Just as the shark is misunderstood , so is the turtle. Protected against virtually everything by it’s shell. A true survivor , a grazer , peaceful and gentle, the turtle stands alone.
There is a great threat not only to the turtle but all life here and that is plastic. Plastic has been spread like peanut butter all over the planet. Spread like a freak that just don’t care. unmonitored and toxic at levels beyond a livable amount. Why ? If it’s so bad , why haven’t any of our world policing groups acknowledged it? As the turtles graze they like to add protein to their diet, jellyfish is perfect. digesting the jellies is easy with some coral and sea grass in your gut. Not so for plastic. They become clogged with indigestible plastic and soon die of starvation with a full stomach. It must be one of the worst ways to die, painful , confusing , energy depleting , slow deaths with a 100% kill rate. So again I ask WHY ? Why hide these facts in the news and under waters that provide life for the planet. It’s a war on us all. All Life, animal, bug, foliage and trees harmed by plastic and chemicals dumped frivolously , nilly come hither, anywhere they won’t be seen doing so. Like third world countries. People we trust in places they think we won’t know. Help, I’m sinking in a sea of pollutants along with my loving turtles. They don’t understand any better than I do. It’s not to late to call or write your legislature about this huge problem that combined with the other world catastrophes lessen our chances of survival. Do the elites think their immune to end of world events?
Love all All love