I joined the Venture OUT Florida group last night for a once in a lifetime experience on a beach: turtle nesting.
To everyone's amazement, the MacArthur Beach State Park - a small strip sandwiched between condo developments in wealthy Palm Beach County - attracts the largest number of logerhead, green and leatherback turtles in the world save Oman.
Our quest was to find a female turtle waddling out of the water and crawling to the dune, where she would lay a hundred eggs, then close the deep hole and camoflauge the spot. We waited about two hours to find our girl and watch her produced the ping pong ball-size eggs while in a trance. She was in a trance, and so was I at sand level, watching with an infared filtered flashlight.
This was the first - but not last - outing I will do with this LGBT group. Fun things to do in Broward and Palm Beach counties with fun men and women. Nice to see the age span from the 20's to the 60's.
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