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Friday 7 July 2017
The Leatherback Turtle Season in full Swing on Aruba!

EAGLE BEACH – Several where she herself was
weeks ago the first Leath- born. She does not lay just
erback nest of this year one nest, but repeat the
was found on the beach in egg laying every 8-12 days
front of Amsterdam Manor with an average of seven
and as we can see on the nests per season. The eggs
Driekiel-O-Meter sign there need 60 – 70 days of incu-
are two nests now. The bation, so it will take about
Leatherback Sea Turtle is lo- two months to see the little
cally called Driekiel, hence hatchings leaving the nest.
the name Driekiel-O-Meter Last year a total of 20 nests
for the big sign placed were counted on Eagle
along the Boulevard at Ea- Beach, laid by just two dif-
gle Beach, in front of Para- ferent females. Those two
dise Beach Villa’s. You can did a splendid job, above
find a lot of information on the average. But in general
this sign. 2016 was not a very abun-
The Leatherback Sea Turtle dant Leatherback nesting
(Dermochelyscoriacea) year, not here on Aruba
is the largest of the seven and neither in the rest of
the Caribbean region. Let’s
see what 2017 will bring us!
Leatherbacks can be
species of sea turtles liv-
ing in the world’s oceans
today. Aruba is proud to
welcome these magnifi-
cent animals every year.
They are the oldest “repeat
guests” of the island.
The Leatherback Sea Turtle
does not live in the Carib-
bean Sea, but in the North-
ern part of the Atlantic
Ocean. Every 2-4 years the
adult female will return to
lay her eggs on the beach

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