We then managed to get ashore on a beach with large breaking waves, nearly capsized the dinghy and got very wet! Had a damp supper and then discovered we didn't have enough money! Restaurant very happy for us to come back in the morning..............luckily. Waited for turtles until 01.30 watching a bizarre loop of turtles photographs to an equally bizarre sound track of bad pop music. When one had established where she was going to lay, we all set off to watch. They are huge, about 2m long and weigh in at one ton.  They go into a kind of trance when they are laying and so we got to stroke her - very exciting, and very soft in between the leathery bits. I understand the area has received bad press recently for 'destroying eggs to protect a hotel'.  As always the information is wrong.  Their river burst its banks and changed course, threatening the hotel, many homes and a large proportion of the nesting beach.  The work undertaken was to restore the original course of the river where a small number of turtle nests are always 'destroyed' as they are washed away by the river. It is a fairly remote community of about 400 and they now recognise the importance of their turtles. Half of the local people are directly involved in the conservation and tourism that they bring. It was the right thing to do and I obviously needed to defend them a bit! The return to the boat at 04.00 was just as difficult and wet with the additional of a tropical downpour! Not your average Saturday night.