upside down

No leatherbacks the past two nights. We have had a couple reports of some of our turtles nesting up in Melbourne Beach. Seems like they are slowly making the migration back north. The morning did turn out kind of interesting though. On my last pass back to the office I found an upside down male green turtle near the golf course. I first thought he was dead but he eventually moved a flipper. He was probably mating and then got tossed off and turned upside down. When we got him turned right side up again he didn't move. He stayed on the beach for one hour before going back in the water and was around for a beautiful sunrise. First we thought something was wrong with him because he wasn't going anywhere, but then all of a sudden he freaked out and went back to the ocean super fast. It was all kind of strange but really awesome to see a male up on the beach at sunrise.