Sakatia Island Turtles 2
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Wed 28 Aug 2019 23:57
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Our Second Snorkel with the
Gentle Giants
 We had had enough of chores so we
went off in Baby Beez at lunch time so there would be very few tourists on our
second snorkel off the southern tip of Sakatia Island. Just a few minutes after
we went in we saw a pair of blue-fins.
 This chap stayed
utterly motionless until we flapped by.
 Our first turtle
grazing.
  This chap looked
straight at us then simply carried on with his
dive.
  It was my turn to name a creature, I
chose Stumpy Robertson, thrilled to see him
again.
    Grazing is
a serious business, so much so, they gave no mind to us whatsoever. Head down
munch, small puff of sand rises and now and again their heads raise to give a
big swallow, then it’s up to the surface for a breath and repeat.
Factoids – A leatherback can
dive to a thousand metres. A sleeping turtle can hold its breath for between
four and seven hours, sadly, a turtle caught in a net will drown very quickly.
In prehistoric times the biggest turtle measured twenty-one feet. The biggest
leatherback on record was a chap who became stranded in Wales in 1987. He was
nine feet from head to tail and weighed in at nine hundred and seventy kilograms
or nearly one hundred and fifty three stone.
  Must not forget the LBJ’s (little brown jobs) or the Picasso
triggerfish.
 Just as we had decided to return to
Beez for a late lunch we came across this incredible lady. A giant pufferfish that can grow to over three feet in
length – our girl was about two feet long.
  So
camouflaged that the short video I took had the camera baffled as to
where the focus point was.
ALL IN ALL SIMPLY LOVELY AND
PUFFER WAS AMAZING
REALLY
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