Ostional beach turtle tour, Guanacaste, Costa Rica

There are natural events that are difficult to forget. Watch a huge olive ridley turtle come out of the sea, walk slowly uphill along this beach, until it reaches the dry sand, use its head and legs (fins) to dig a deep hole in the sand, to finally take up a spawning position and in each bid release some eggs, reaching an average of more than 50 eggs.

Then they bury the hole and always with a distrustful look on the nearby humans or buzzards -dogs that roam looking for their eggs too-, they take the path back to the sea, pausing, because their heavy shell (weighs 30 to 50 kg) and the spawning has exhausted them. She expects a strong wave and when the force of it pulls her out to sea, then she swims and gets lost in the depths of the ocean.

It transmits that mystique of a marine animal that emerges to the surface because its instinct has told it that this place in Costa Rica is the ideal place for the reproduction of its species (Lora Turtles in its great majority). Only 0.7% of the millions of buried eggs will reach their adult stage. They must overcome the egg and hatchling stoners, reach the sea and then its creatures.

Spawning season is late September and early October each year.