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Wrapping up the first month in Tassiriki

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First things A couple updates from my previous post .  Remember those two turtles?  Well, Sima told Terry to let the little one go, because it was just too little.  (Terry didn't catch the turtles, I don't know who did.)  I missed that release, unfortunately.  But then a couple days later the larger one was still sitting around.  I thought it was dead, but evidently you can just set a sea turtle on its back and it will survive for weeks, as long as it is not in the sun.  Terry gets tired of people doing this.  I guess many times someone catches a turtle then it just sits around, and Terry puts it back in the ocean.  So he did the same thing with the other turtle.  Well, he flipped it over anyway so it could walk back.  The big ones are heavy.  Both went back to the ocean. How old is this turtle?  Don't know.  There isn't a visual way to age a green sea turtle.  What sex is it?  Don't know that either. The turtle had to frequently stop and rest while making