{"id":1490,"date":"2017-07-19T09:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2017-07-18T22:22:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T02:22:46","slug":"sea-turtle-mornings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/19\/sea-turtle-mornings\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Turtle Mornings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past several summers, I have been lucky to spend time at <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/03\/coasting\/\">Debordieu Beach<\/a>, where one of my favorite things to do is look for turtle tracks on early morning walks. <\/p>\n<p>This year, the nesting season has been quite busy. What a week we chose! <\/p>\n<p>No turtles in sight during the daylight, but plenty of nighttime activity, as evidenced by the flipper marks that look like tire tracks heading up the beach. My favorite sight &#8212; the turtle tracks that looped around a tree before finally leading to the nesting site. Another favorite moment &#8212; coming across the Turtle Ladies just as they finished relocating a nest. What a fantastic, dedicated group!<\/p>\n<p>Some days are quieter than others. But there\u2019s always something magical about a morning beach.<\/p>\n<div id=\"kad-wp-gallery59\" class=\"kad-wp-gallery kad-light-wp-gallery clearfix kt-gallery-column-4 rowtight\"><div class=\"tcol-lg-3 tcol-md-3 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BeachFlag.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BeachFlag.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"875\" alt=\"Flag on Driftwood\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BeachFlag.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BeachFlag-300x256.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BeachFlag-768x656.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" 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src=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SharksTooth.jpg\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1091\" alt=\"Shark Tooth\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SharksTooth.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SharksTooth-282x300.jpg 282w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SharksTooth-768x818.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SharksTooth-961x1024.jpg 961w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" class=\"light-dropshaddow\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div><div class=\"tcol-lg-3 tcol-md-3 tcol-sm-4 tcol-xs-6 tcol-ss-12 g_item\"><div class=\"grid_item kad_gallery_fade_in gallery_item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/TurtleTracks4.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox\" class=\"lightboxhover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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This year, the nesting season has been quite &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/19\/sea-turtle-mornings\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,40,25],"tags":[36,45,16,26],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach","category-summer","category-walkabout-wednesday","tag-beach","tag-summer","tag-turtles","tag-walkabout-wednesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lucynolanbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}