SHANGRALA'S

OSTIONAL SEA TURTLES


      The beach of Ostional is the scenery for a rarely-seen biological wonder. Around the beginning of the last quarter of the moon cycle, hundreds, and sometimes hundreds of thousand sea turtles come to one specific mile of beach at Ostional to dig their eggs into the black, volcanic sand.

Shangrala's Ostional Sea Turtles
      The Ostional Wildlife Refuge in Costa Rica was created in 1984 to protect one of the world's most important nesting sites of the olive ridley sea turtle.
      Only olive-ridleys and their close relatives, Kemp's Sea Turtles, the latter an Atlantic species synchronize their nesting in mass emergences or "arribadas", the Spanish word for arrivals.

Shangrala's Ostional Sea Turtles
      Over the course of a five-day arribada nesting turtles will leave up to 10 million eggs on the beach of Ostional.

Shangrala's Ostional Sea Turtles
      Ostional is the only beach in the world where egg poaching is legal. Scientists found out that most of the eggs deposed in the first nights of an arribada are destroyed by subsequent turtles who dig their nests.

Shangrala's Ostional Sea Turtles
      Therefore, since 1987, the government of Costa Rica allows on an annual, temporary suspension of the international ban on turtle-egg taking that the community of Ostional may harvest the doomed eggs on the first two dawns of an arribada. In return, the community must protect the turtles, clean debris from the beaches and patrol day and night for poachers.

Here are some photos of This Egg Harvesting! Enjoy! :)
Shangrala's Ostional Sea Turtles

Shangrala's Ostional Sea Turtles



Shangrala's Ostional Sea Turtles

Shangrala's Ostional Sea Turtles

Shangrala's Ostional Sea Turtles

Shangrala's Ostional Sea Turtles

Shangrala's Ostional Sea Turtles

Shangrala's Ostional Sea Turtles

Shangrala's Ostional Sea Turtles

Shangrala's Ostional Sea Turtles

Shangrala's Ostional Sea Turtles

Shangrala's Ostional Sea Turtles
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