I have been snorkeling almost every Thursday since we got to Dominica. There is a group of us that go every week. There have been times that I was not able to go, but just about every week I have been. If we are not able to go on Thursday, we will try for another day that week. While we have been snorkeling, we have made friends with a sea turtle. He is the coolest thing ever. We have swam with him for hours before. He is really hard to find because he blends in with the coral, but once we find him, we can swim right along with him for a while. It has been amazing. Something to really look forward to. Well I have some bad news..... This week Ralna and I decided to go snorkeling on Tuesday. We hadn't been last week because Kyler had Hand Foot and Mouth, so we decided to try for a couple times this week to make up for last week. We had a great time, we found lots of sand dollars, a few really neat shells, and tons of fish, we saw two sting rays and the biggest puffer fish we have ever seen. As we were getting out of the water to go pick up the kids, I saw something floating in the water that looked like a broken plastic chair, so I swam over to it and still wasn't sure what it was. As soon as I got close enough to get a good look, I looked up to find Ralna and she was already on her way over, we both started screaming, I think mostly because we couldn't believe what we were seeing. Our friend who we had named Crush was gone.
We took the shell back to the school and asked Mr. Theo who is a teacher at the school, what could have happened to him, and he said that the clean cut on the spine, the knife marks in the flesh and the clean cuts on the edges means that someone killed him to eat. If a shark had gotten him, there would have been teeth marks on the shell. I didn't even know people ate turtles. Especially not Crush!! So apparently, it is illegal to kill the turtles and so to have a shell would mean that we had killed the turtle ourselves, so we took some pics and then put it back in the ocean.
4 comments:
NO WAY!!! that is the saddest story ever! are you sure you want pictures up? what if they come after you? jk
That's so sad! I am sorry:) It made me think of Cast away when he loses his volleyball friend, sadly enough I cried about that when I saw the movie but what don't I cry about right:) Love ya, Laura
How sad! I didn't know people would eat a turtle! That's kinda gross actually. What a waste. I think turtles are neat.
That stinks that someone had to ruin such a cool thing. Having him swim with you would be so awesome.
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