The Old Hegg Turtle Sanctuary is on the other side of the island over near Spring. It is the effort of Brother King, who has been working for many years to improve survival rates of hawksbill turtles. In the wild, upwards to 60% of young turtles do not make it.
The sanctuary takes in new borns, directly off the beach as they hatch, as well as take in older turtles with injuries or something wrong.
We got there at a good time... they had just collected over 800 new borns and had them in their tanks. These guys are 15 days old.
They were tiny - about 4"
Here is a full size guy - about two feet long. There were about 10 of the big guys.
We ended up snorkeling among the hawksbill when we visited the marine park at Tobago Cays. They were in a protected area and we managed to see many large hawksbills
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