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Annie Leonhart ([personal profile] lyingheart) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs2014-09-27 02:35 pm

[ open ] operation: baby sea turtle rescue is a go!

WHO: ALL IMPORTS.
WHERE: An Atlantic-facing beach in Eastern Florida.
WHEN: Saturday - Monday
WHAT: Baby leatherback sea-turtles have been stunned by the temperatures of the water at their hatching beach, and must be rounded up in their thousands to be relocated to warmer waters, either to struggle out through the surf on their own, or to be boated out and released directly into the sea!
WARNINGS: ... How can this log have warnings ImPorts rescue baby sea turtles! More information located here.



The long stretch of beach the ImPorts find themselves on is littered with baskets, coolers, styrofoam containers, anything the rescue workers could use to hold the baby sea turtles for transit. Dozens of nests have all emptied of turtles, and gulls roam overhead, looking for opportunities to snatch the stunned baby sea turtles tumbling around in the waves. The shock of the unexpected temperature on their tiny systems renders them incapable of moving, and ImPorts will soon find themselves ushered to the water line to grab tiny, tumbling turtles out of the water.

When enough are collected, a portion of the volunteers and ImPorts are pulled aside to ride with the baby turtles down the coastline to warmer waters, where they'll either be asked to cart the containers down to the waterline to release the baby sea turtles and watch that they don't end up shocked all over again, or instructed to go out to sea on any of the chartered or volunteer-driven boats and release the sea turtles directly into the warmer ocean waters.

Water and lunches will be provided, dinner is haphazard, come as you go. Bright search floodlights are set up on Saturday night so that collection rescue efforts can continue without much interruption. If the same is needed on Sunday night, it will be provided.

For some ImPorts, this will be the first time their arrival isn't treated with great fanfare. People with abilities that assist in the collection and redistribution of the baby sea turtles will get relieved displays of gratitude from attending volunteers and any press drawn to the scene, but much of the fervency seen elsewhere will be largely absent.
dogsled: (diefenbaker)

[personal profile] dogsled 2014-10-01 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
[ Diefenbaker doesn't notice the approach at first. His nose is fixed on sniffing up turtles, some of them still under the sand, hatching but not yet emerged from their nests, and since he's deaf, it comes back to his eyesight at last to draw his attention upwards.

His ears perk too, but it's a force of habit rather than anything else, and for a moment he draws very still, before shooting a quick glance toward Benton, who's gently gathering soft shelled turtles into a box twenty yards away. There's no point troubling him with this.

So he wags his tail hello, and carefully takes two steps closer, still holding an 'I'm very tall' kind of friendly stance, and whines out a curious greeting. If his 'voice' sounds at all strange, it's from spending the latter years of his life stone deaf.
]
ifnotloyal: (02 > look down)

[personal profile] ifnotloyal 2014-10-01 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess not...

[ A minor let down, but one he's used to. Still, it's no reason to be rude. A new friend is a new friend and the wolf seems friendly! He takes a few steps closer as well, moving slowly and leaning forward to sniff at Diefenbaker.

But he wags his tail in return, adopting the same friendly kind of stance, although his along comes with a curious noise.

Hello, hello, what are you up to?
]