In Grand Popo beach, in Benin (western Africa), there a special place to preserve and take care of sea turtles.
Eggs are collected and baby turtles growing in a protected and safe environment (pools of water), feed, and when ready, they will be released into the sea (by staff or tourists). They will come back into the wild around two weeks after birth!
Nature Tropicale is the name of the ong dedicated to this activity.
Other info at www.naturetropicale.org:
Staff working on the maintenance of the structure:
One of the pool the baby turtles are feeding:
The entrance of the structure. Inside the tire, you can find incubating eggs, with indicated the collection date, the numbers of eggs, and the indicative date of hatched:
Here Grand-Popo beach, in front of Gulf of Guinea (Atlantic ocean).
Boat colors and landscape are very similar and beach is wild and not so populated.
Some lost and old boats, painted with Benin flags and faded colors.
Some huts where people have rest and lunch:
Here the place nearby the beach.
A church (Eglise locale Bethlehem de Grand-Popo):
And some run-down buildings:
Here exact place on map:
(Image by Google Maps)
Pictures taken with Sony Alpha 7iii.
17.10.2022