It peeked out from under the sand under the incredulous eyes of the swimmers. This morning a newborn caretta caretta turtle made its first journey towards the sea on the beach of Lu Impostu in San Teodoro.
In the video shot by a tourist, and posted on the Facebook group "San Teodoro", we see the little one awkwardly making his way between the feet of the bathers and reaching the shoreline.
The small sea turtle is not part of the brood laid, again in Lu Impostu, at the end of July. The area in question had in fact been fenced off and since then it has been guarded and constantly monitored by the webcams of the protected marine area of Tavolara - Punta Coda Cavallo. An adult specimen was filmed at night while laying numerous eggs, but the happy event is expected in about twenty days. Today's birth therefore belongs to a previous brood of which we were unaware, discovered just a little while ago in the northern area of the beach, a confirmation that the Teodorina beach is the ideal habitat for the fascinating adult specimens of sea turtle.
Marine area personnel arrived in Lu Impostu this morning and egg search operations are still underway.
