A fantastic experience, we lucked into being at Los Muertos about when the sea turtles hatch.  At first as we were walking the beach, there was a mystery:  Sticks and screens were set up for who knows what purpose…

…then we noticed strange tracks in the sand…

Could these be snake tracks??

…then we found out what this was all about!!  Baby Sea Turtles were hatching and the “shrines” were actually protecting the eggs from being trampled and from being dug up by the seagulls.

"Our" sea turtle. We named him; "Cortez"

Be free, Cortez!

Adios muchacho (he knew which way to swim and we watched until he was beyond the surf and heading out to sea)