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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.
khajidont: (Default)

[personal profile] khajidont 2014-10-13 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
Do me a favour and make sure one of those games isn't Nibbling On Bart's Fingers. [He looks over towards the ocean, yanking a little at his shorts - thoroughly soaked at the bottoms - and considers the amount of little guys they still have left to save.] You could get them to, like, fetch things for you. That'd keep them busy.
yatagarasu: (SURVEYING ☄ the crime scene)

[personal profile] yatagarasu 2014-10-17 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
Don't worry, that can be arranged. [She grins and raises a hand to give a thumbs-up.] And they actually do more fetching than I want them to, so I'm working on that too.
khajidont: (Jaime - smirk)

[personal profile] khajidont 2014-10-17 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
[He raises a brow at her, mouth twisting into a smirk.] That so? What kind of fetching would that be? Like, shiny junk and stuff, or what?
yatagarasu: (STEAL ☄ it's totally truth okay)

[personal profile] yatagarasu 2014-10-17 08:49 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly that kind of fetching. [She puts down the basket to pick up two baby turtles at the same time.]
khajidont: (Default)

[personal profile] khajidont 2014-10-20 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Jaime follows her lead, wading out a little further to scoop up a couple more of the little guys, laughing a little as one of them impotently attempts to nibble on his finger.]

Well, it could be worse. They could do the thing they always do in cartoons and, like, steal old dudes' toupees. How much crap have they gotten you into?
yatagarasu: (OOPS ☄ did I steal that?)

[personal profile] yatagarasu 2014-10-22 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
...Quite a bit, but thankfully I'm not swamped by angry phone calls and messages.

[Actually, if they stole old dudes' toupees, Kay would laugh and approve before sheepishly handing those toupees back.

She kneels in front of the basket for a while, watching all the turtles inside.]