Baby Sea Turtles!

Friday, September 9, 2005

Here are some more pictures of our time at the Mnarani Natural Aquarium on Nungwi Beach, Zanzibar.

I think that for all of us holding the baby turtles was a highlight of the experience. Their little bodies were cool and leathery and they had the most serious expressions on their little freckled faces.

There were several sizes of young turtles wimming in separate basins or tanks, ranging in size from a shell maybe only two inches across to the plump youngsters we were holding.

The aquarium also kept a few small land tortoises, as well as a python from the local forest which was kept in a pen with a very large and resigned-looking cane rat.