It was a beautiful night on Trinidad’s Grande Riviere beach when three nests of leatherback hatchlings emerged from the sand and began their long journey to the ocean. I was just inches from this little guy with my fisheye lens. Nice when being so close is actually good for the animals, as no vulture dared come close as I escorted the turtle to the sea. Nikon D800 with Sigma 15mm fisheye lens, ISO 1600, f/2.8 at 1/320th of a second
Sean,
Great to see & hear about the Leatherback hatchlings. Good to hear ur intervention got a great image & has given the Little Fellow some chance of making it to adulthood.
I’m on the West Coast of Ireland & l’ve only ever seen 1 Leatherback eating jrllyfish while out fishing. I’m told our waters are too cold for them tho we have the ‘Gulf Stream’ that comes out of Mexico & sweeps thru the Caribbean & across the Atlantic & runs up our West Coast so maybe that accounted for my sighting.
Keep posting, it’s such a pleasure to get such images of unspoilt nature in today’s High Tech world.
Hi Michael, I saw several hundred. Most of them were put in a box to save them from vultures and then once it got dark were released into the ocean when there were no predators around.
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It was a beautiful night on Trinidad’s Grande Riviere beach when three nests of leatherback hatchlings emerged from the sand and began their long journey to the ocean. I was just inches from this little guy with my fisheye lens. Nice when being so close is actually good for the animals, as no vulture dared come close as I escorted the turtle to the sea.
Safe for this moment
Under a sheltering lens
Lifes journey begins .
Sean,
Great to see & hear about the Leatherback hatchlings. Good to hear ur intervention got a great image & has given the Little Fellow some chance of making it to adulthood.
I’m on the West Coast of Ireland & l’ve only ever seen 1 Leatherback eating jrllyfish while out fishing. I’m told our waters are too cold for them tho we have the ‘Gulf Stream’ that comes out of Mexico & sweeps thru the Caribbean & across the Atlantic & runs up our West Coast so maybe that accounted for my sighting.
Keep posting, it’s such a pleasure to get such images of unspoilt nature in today’s High Tech world.
Thanks Con. Always good to hear from the land of my ancestors.
This is a keeper
how many of these little creasure did you see trying to make it back to the sea, ) great p=hoto- to day, a greaaaat p=ic.
Hi Michael, I saw several hundred. Most of them were put in a box to save them from vultures and then once it got dark were released into the ocean when there were no predators around.