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I got up very early this morning to go walk with a friend on the beach and check for turtle nests. The babies are very vulnerable, so the sea turtle organization guards the nests, even moves them sometimes, and checks them every day--volunteers take turns.

No hatchlings today. One nest is not yet ready, but the other is two weeks overdue. The eggs may have been under water too much, or have some disease--who knows?

I would love to see the babies crawling out and heading for the ocean. Many years ago I saw a mother who'd climbed up to lay her eggs, and I've seen a nest the day after hatching, but never the babies themselves.

Now I'm back in Columbia--miss the ocean, even the stormy windy rainy wild hurricane ocean (maybe especially that one). Someday I'll find a way to spend more time there.

ETA: While dodging trucks in the skirts of the storm on the way home, I was still so glad not to be in Florida, or even Atlanta (been there and done all that). I was thinking about the German word schadenfreude which I believe means "joy from someone else's bad fortune." What I was trying to imagine was a word that means "feeling guilty you got missed and someone else got hit." Don't know enough German to invent one. And then reading my LJ found that kijjohnson had come up with blizenfreude for people who spend 23 hours a day watching CNN or maybe the reporters, etc., who derive so much pleasure (and profit of course) from the hurricanes (would mean "storm joy" I think). Not quite my word but interesting that it came up.


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