Turtle life
02 Saturday Aug 2025
Posted in Daily Life, Daily Message, Finding Me
02 Saturday Aug 2025
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amazing nature, baby turtles, beach, beach find, family, gratitude, Indialantic, Life, nature, photography, turtle, turtle tracks
Turtle traffic? Some days the turtle tracks are very confusing.
Mama Turtle
Mama turtle in action
Baby turtle
2 baby turtles in action – it took probably about 20 minutes, as the tide kept returning the to the sand, but eventually they both made it to the ocean.
01 Friday Aug 2025
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amazing nature, beach, beach find, family, fishing, gratitude, Indialantic, kayaking, Life, nature, photographer, photography, surfing
A Surfer
A kayaker
A fisherman
A photographer
Wishing everyone a blessed weekend! May August be full of love, adventure and discoveries!
30 Wednesday Jul 2025
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amazing nature, baby turtle, beach, beach find, blog, family, gold coins, gratitude, Indialantic, Life, nature, photography, pirates
This morning, besides a turtle laying their eggs, and some baby turtles getting to the ocean, I saw the pirate again.
I am not sure if I have mentioned here before or not, I see a pirate walking on the beach every morning.
Yes, a pirate! and I can prove it! I took a photo, and he even gave me a gold coin 🙂
His words: “I started walking on the beach dressed as a pirate this summer to get some exercise as well as share my love for history and most importantly to bring some smiles and magic to the beach.”
And he does bring a lot of smiles. 🙂
25 Friday Jul 2025
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amazing nature, baby turtle, beach, beach find, blog, family, gratitude, Indialantic, Life, nature, photography, travel, writing
This morning I saw another baby turtle making its way to the ocean.
It is really amazing that they are able to make it against all odds.
My video making actions is still a struggle, but it is very hard to record those little guys. They move faster than they look, plus I am trying not to get too close to them, and had just taken a fall.
It was 6am, still dark and all of a sudden I spot this little guy going towards the sand bar the tides created. I realized he would fall, which he did and landed on his back. I fell as I stepped on the sand bank to go down to him. By the time I got up he had turned himself over and was on his way.
All is well that ends well!
24 Thursday Jul 2025
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amazing nature, beach, beach find, blog, family, gratitude, Indialantic, Life, Melbourne Beach Pier, nature, photography, Pier park, Rickman Park, travel, writing
I love my sunset bike rides. Before returning home I normally sit at a bench by the river and spend some time doing some or all of the following:
Here is heaven:
22 Tuesday Jul 2025
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amazing nature, beach, beach find, beach walk, blog, family, Indialantic, Life, sand, seashells, shells, travel, writing
I have a shoe problem. In the beginning I was walking on the beach barefoot, but I had all sorts of pain in my knees and my hips. I looked into some water shoes, but haven’t found any that provided the support I want and need. Water sandals didn’t work either, they let the sand in and it becomes uncomfortable, also my foot slides in them, so there is no support. I also need high tops so that sand doesn’t get in them.
For the moment I have been walking in sketchers tennis shoes. They are good, but I don’t want to get them wet, so I have been walking mostly on the dry soft sand, instead of closer to the water. I am still in search of the perfect beach walking shoes.
Today I found myself walking much closer to the water because of some sand banks the tide has created. It is interesting to see how the ocean and tides behave during the different seasons. Michael is a surfer so I am hearing more than I care to know about how the waves are behaving on a daily basis.
I feel bad for the turtles. In some areas they cannot go over the sand wall that has been created. Look at the tracks in the picture below. They were headed to the sand to lay their eggs, but had to abort the mission and return to the ocean.
All I found today were items returned by the ocean. They all looked like they had spent a night in the ocean and returned in the morning. I am guessing the ocean is tired of eyewear.
I saw another baby turtle, but unfortunately it was dead. I think a crab had tried to grab its legs. I am amazed that some of them are able to make it to the water, with all the obstacles and predators.
A blessed week to all!
I wrote the above yesterday, but didn’t have the chance to edit and post it. I don’t have time to do it today either, but decided to post it anyway or it will never be done.
I have a financial audit, and also the final answer letter to the NFA findings both due on Thursday, July 24th. I am giving myself Friday off, if those are finished and there is no follow up questions.
Briefly, today I saw 2 turtles going back to the ocean. I didn’t take pictures. The first one it was still dark out and I didn’t want do anything to disturb it. The second one, there were already too many people watching it.
I found goggles again, a couple of shovels and a t-shirt, plus assorted bottle caps and straws.
Sorry about typos. I hope everyone has a blessed day! May you see all the blessings in your life!
16 Wednesday Jul 2025
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aging parents, amazing nature, beach, beach find, beach walk, blog, Chile, family, Indialantic, Life, sand, seashells, shells, skiing, travel, writing
I am still here, just the usual busyness.
I went to NY for a couple of weeks to pack some more of my stuff. At the moment, I only have some of my mom’s paintings and mosaic materials left there.
I thought I would be going back to NY more often, but that is not the case. I rather try to develop a routine here.
Another 2 weeks of routine here, and we are off to ski in Chile. I am so excited about that!! From there we will be spending a couple of months in Brazil to help out with my aging parents.
The audit my company is going through it is coming to an end. It has taken 6 months. I just need to write a couple of pages of answers to their findings, and a couple of late requests, but I am so relieved that this is final. Hopefully it will be more than a couple of years until they return again.
I am still walking on the beach in the mornings and bicycle riding along the river in the afternoons.
I am not sure why, but I haven’t really been finding a lot on the beach, not even garbage. Perhaps:
I still continue to see turtles laying their eggs. I just look from a distance. I want to give them their space. It is a long nesting season for the 3 types of turtles we have here: green turtle, leatherback and the loggerhead.
I have only seen 1 baby so far. By the prints on the sand, it looked like he was just late leaving the nest.
Clearly by the video I could never be a videographer 😊. In my defense, I was far away so it was not that simple.
I hope you are having an amazing summer (or winter depending in what hemisphere you are).
Blessings!
06 Friday Jun 2025
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amazing nature, beach find, beach walk, blog, Indialantic, Life, sand, seashells, shells, writing
The other day I found the colorful shells pictured below.
There are stretches of this beach where there are thousands of shells. I have seen shells of all kinds, sizes and colors, but this is the first time I have seen shells this green and this pink.
I don’t normally collect shells – I plan on getting some to eventually do a mosaic project – but I couldn’t resist not picking up these ones.
They look like they could have been hand painted. Were they? Is someone playing a trick?
Wishing everyone the most blessed weekend! Be grateful for the small things!
04 Wednesday Jun 2025
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amazing nature, beach walk, blog, Indialantic, Life, turtle, turtle eggs, turtle tracks, writing
This morning I saw another turtle. This one was still in the sand laying her eggs.
This is their routine every season. Since this is my first season here, I am amazed by the sight.
I made sure to keep my distance and respect her space, so I zoomed in on the photos and videos.
03 Tuesday Jun 2025
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amazing nature, beach walk, blog, Indialantic, Life, turtle, turtle eggs, turtle tracks, writing
I was so blessed this morning to see a turtle returning to sea after laying her eggs.
Every day I have been seeing a lot of different turtle tracks and taking pictures of them. This morning I went to walk a little earlier than usual.
I was at the beach around 6:15am. I wanted to go to walk earlier, but was still dark. It is safe here, but why take chances.
I was rewarded with this beautiful sighting. I am sorry about the shaky video.