Turtles

In various places around where we live sea turtles nest (I'm using it as a verb here). Its apparently pretty hard to witness but some places have been set up to help protect the various species.

Now, I'm no turtleologist but it seems they come ashore at night and lay eggs in the sand. The eggs are then snapped up by conservationists and moved to a place like this.

Snapping up the eggs and moving them into a protected sanctuary keeps other animals or weird humans from digging them up and taking them. Believe you me, people eat some weird stuff here. Turtle egg soup would not even register on the weird-food-odometer.
After they hatch, the little guys make their way to the sea where they swim for days with no food until the get to deep water and then they live happily ever after. Why exactly this sanctuary was keeping so many little guys that should have already swam away into the sea remains a mystery. Since this is SE Asia and not the USA, if there were people working at this particular park, they didn't bother to make themselves known or to address our questions.
The lack of park employees did make it much easier to scoop this big guy up and carry him home. First we kept him in a cooler but now he is in our bathtub. The salt bill is getting a bit high, though, as he insists we use only kosher salt.
In an amazing Animal Planet moment, this miraculous footage is available only here. Taken with our nightvision camera, this is a male turtle coming ashore to find a suitable place for his mate to nest.

We overheard her telling him, "And don't come back until you find me a good spot...you understand me?" I think that is why he was hanging his head. No one likes a naggy turtle.

Here is some more info on sea turtles but its from wikipedia so it may not be any more accurate than what I already gave you ;-)!