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22/07/2008: "GREEN TURTLE HATCHLING ...... the mystery of their travels"
A ray of hope for this little fellow just a few hours old, at Lady Musgrave Island on the southern Great Barrier Reef.
The mystery with them is where the little one's disappear to, so soon after hatching.
On 'the reef' there are these miniature turtles, then months later considerably larger ones, but no sizes in-between.
Obviously or apparently they swim out to sea, away from reef fish that might swallow them. Returning when larger. A mystery of the sea.
