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maskormenacelogs2014-09-27 02:35 pm
lyingheart) wrote in maskormenacelogs2014-09-27 02:35 pm
Entry tags:
- jaime reyes | blue beetle,
- † anita king | n/a,
- † annie leonhart | n/a,
- † april ludgate | janet snakehole,
- † armin arlert | n/a,
- † benton fraser | n/a,
- † haru | the alien,
- † jennifer keller | n/a,
- † kay faraday | great thief yatagarasu,
- † mabel pines | n/a,
- † rei ryugazaki | n/a,
- † winry rockbell | n/a
[ 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.
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.
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She offers one bottle to Winry when she returns, taking her own in her hands and untwisting the top, leaning against the sunwarmed rail. ]
Sunset's different at sea, isn't it.
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[The water was stained all deep orange, and the waves cast darker shadows. The shoreline had strings of lights, different colors for houses and for businesses, creating a pattern of color back at the shore. The breeze coming off the water was cool, and Winry wished for a jacket, or even a long-sleeved shirt. Well, they were running out of buckets of babies, they'd be going back to shore soon.]
Dolphin!
[One of the volunteers pointed out at the water farther east of them, and the creatures rose out of the sea before dropping down into it. Their exhalations carried across the ocean.]
that's such a cute icon
[ Annie looks along the way the volunteers point, not seeing the animal in question at first. Her first introduction had been out at sea, closer to the Florida shore, on the glass bottom boat tour Will had set her up on months before. When she does, she's caught off guard enough to smile. Dolphins have a certain playful, powerful curiosity in how they move. Further out as they are, the dolphins don't come in closer, breaching and throwing themselves into the air, falling down with a splash that carries as much as their exhalations across the open sea. ]
They're such interesting creatures.
Aww, thanks. So is yours.
I'd like to see them closer, some time. [She thought Al would probably love them.]
haha thank you!
[ Annie watches the orange and black surface of the water. ]
Do you know Will Graham?
:D
[...that's a strange question.]
I think I've met him through communications, but never in person.
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[ She has a lot of respect for Will, and this knowledge is part of it. ]
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[She knows next to nothing about the ocean, after all.]