— Hatchlings and Conservation.
Eons of evolution have endowed sea turtles with the precise math that enables each female, over the course of her lifetime (a span of decades we are still unsure of), to produce exactly the correct multiples of thousands of eggs that may ensure that just two adults, on average, end up replacing herself and her mate…
— Green Turtle.
I can think of few scenes more idyllic and eternal than watching one of the most unlikely marine creatures of them all — a reptile — dancing weightlessly through swaying underwater gardens of golden seaweed fronds. And yet, there she is, flowing with the waves and currents, timeless…
— Leatherback Turtle.
The Arafura Sea… the Banda Sea… the Molucca Islands… I remember, as a child, playing ‘explorers’ with my dad, tracing our fingers over those dream-inducing names on the pages of our over-sized family atlas. Never in my wildest imaginings could I have foreseen that someday I would really be there. Or even less…
— Kemp’s Turtle.
There’s a little-known little-sea-turtle — in fact by far the littlest of them all — that has held on to some of the biggest mysteries amongst all its kin… Just five feet long and weighing less than one twentieth that of the largest Leatherback, the Kemp’s turtle has kept an incredibly low profile despite living…
— Loggerhead & Hawksbill Turtles.
Doing a book on all the seven sea turtles of the world has presented many more challenges than I ever expected. Maybe I should have remembered that, if turtles out-survived so many other species in their tens of millions of years on this planet, it’s because they have pretty wily habits…
— Ridley Turtles of Mexico.
For a whole week the three of us (my author friend Rod, his assistant Ashleigh and myself) walked the deserted golden sands of Escobilla beach aimlessly, only occasionally coming across a forlorn turtle track. Sometimes, at the break of day, we even spotted the odd female making a tentative appearance… but…
— Leatherback Turtles of Trinidad.
‘Beauty’ might not be the first word that comes to mind when describing a massive, mostly black, cylindrically-shaped marine creature, some 6 feet in length and weighing half a ton or more. Yet that was the name that fit perfectly for the last of several hundreds of these behemoths that I met…
— Sea Turtles Book in Progress.
When, over three years ago I first presented the idea to my good friend Rod Mast that, together, we could produce an amazing book on THE WORLD OF SEA TURTLES, I really didn’t know what I was letting myself in for, nor do I think did he! Please read on for the full story….
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