Cycle of Life: A photo essay
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Wildlife Photography
A Green Turtle lays her eggs, against the glow of two oil rigs on the horizon.
Earlier this year, I spent two weeks traversing the Pilbara region of Western Australia, as a personal project to document the region and also to relax at the same time. Another of the primary reasons for the trip was to spend some time around Exmouth and nearby Cape Range National Park, to document the hatching of turtles along the coastline, and if I was lucky, the laying of eggs by the enormous adult turtles. We spent about three nights camping in the national park, each evening going out looking for wildlife on the roads and then pulling into some of the many beaches along the Cape searching for nesting Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas).
A turtle clambers ashore to lay her eggs at sunset
Find out more and see what eats baby turtles after the jump! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: field, photo essay, photojournalism, Wildlife, Wildlife Photography
