Watch giant leatherback turtles come ashore on Trinidad’s beaches

Turtle-watching in Trinidad is something every local and every visitor should experience, if they can. The island is one of only a few places in the Caribbean where giant leatherback female practises her timeless “family tradition” of returning to the place where she was born to lay her eggs. The sight of these huge creatures swimming in the rough waves of the Atlantic Ocean or the Caribbean Sea, and then making their way up on to the beach is incredible. The whole process of watching her give birth — from the digging of the hole with her flippers, to the “backfilling” after the delivery, to her return to the sea to mate again — can be witnessed on any north or east coast beach, but especially at Matura, Fishing Pond, and Grande Rivière.

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