Pink plastic tape wrapped around four yellow wooden stakes mark and protect the nesting site of a loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) that has come on shore during the night to dig a hole with her flippers and lay her eggs in the sandy beach on Longboat Key along the Gulf Coast of Florida, USA. The female covers the nest with sand after depositing about 100 ping-pong ball-size eggs, which hatch in about 55 days and the baby sea turtles head back into the Gulf of Mexico. In 2008, the loggerhead sea turtle was named the official state saltwater reptile of Florida.
Pink plastic tape wrapped around four yellow wooden stakes mark and protect the nesting site of a loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) that has come on shore during the night to dig a hole with her flippers and lay her eggs in the sandy beach on Longboat Key along the Gulf Coast of Florida, USA. The female covers the nest with sand after depositing about 100 ping-pong ball-size eggs, which hatch in about 55 days and the baby sea turtles head back into the Gulf of Mexico. In 2008, the loggerhead sea turtle was named the official state saltwater reptile of Florida. The sea turtle nesting season is May through October in Sarasota County, which includes the barrier islands of Longboat Key, Siesta Key, Casey Key and Manasota Key.
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Location: Longboat Key, Sarasota County, Florida, USA
Photo credit: © Michele and Tom Grimm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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