I heard from Fen, the woman who lives in Winnipeg, that people go out on the beach early in the morning and help the tutles that hatch to the ocean by smoothing out the footprints they sometimes get hung up on. This beach is a nesting and hatching ground for the leastherback turtles, a huge animal that can weigh up to 1,000 pounds. So since I was up early for the estuary tour, I went out to the beach. There were no hatchlings (not really surprising, as the season for them is over. It usually ends about mid February) but there was evidence of a mature turtle on the beach in the night. The tracks are huge, and look something like ATV tracks. I didn’t have my camera so I will have to go back and try and get a shot of them.