Baby sea turtles!!

So, finally time to see some sea turtles! And not a few either, I think they said it was about 80. While we drow to the beach the hatchlings decided to get out of the nest. Mukesh got a phone call from the forest department guy who asked where we were! "We are on our way, wait for us!" :-) When we arrived the turtles had hatched, but they were collected in a bowl to wait for the officer from the Forest Depatment and a reporter from a newspaper. It can be difficult to understand things somtimes when we do not speak the same language. Why did the baby turtles have to wait for the officer? And spend more then an hour in a bowl exhausting themselves before getting into the ocean? I will try to get an answer from Sameer next time we go there. It was a mixed feeling to release the hatchlings; it was great to get the opportunity to see it, but I felt bad for keeping them in the bowl and a bit lost or empty when they entered the ocean and were gone forever. The ocean is so big and the baby turtles so small, and there is no place for humans in this animals life. I hope some of them will come back to the beach to lay their own eggs sometime.