Snorkelling with green sea turtles Australia

in WORLD OF XPILAR6 days ago

I would like to continue my turtle photo journal from our recent trip to Lady Elliot island, the most southern point of the Great barrier reef.

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It is turtle nesting season and the shore of the island are full of sea turtles!

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Lady Elliot island is ideal for the green sea turtle to nest on. For some reason the logger heads go to the main land of Australia to nest.
The female green sea turtles will return to the same beach where they were born to lay their eggs

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While I was out snorkeling one morning it doesn't take long to run into a green sea turtle.

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These turtles are so chilled! It really is something special when Tlthey will just let you swim along side them when they come up for air

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And dive down to the bottom so they can feed on the algae and sea grass below.

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Green sea turtles can grow up to 1.2 meters and weigh up to 190 kg!!

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The green sea turtle is the second largest turtle with the leather back turtle being the largest of all the turtles

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Green sea turtle can live up to 70 years old.

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I wonder how old these turtles were? Some had a couple of large barnacles on them.

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This one turtle had a flute fish mate that was swimming with him.
Which was really cool to see.

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While I was swimming along with this turtle.

She started to rub her back legs and the all of a sudden....

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She did a massive poo hahaha so I Swam away with the quickness

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How good is this cheeky fish photo bombing the turtle haha

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To be honest these damsel fish try and attack you. They don't have much of a bite but it is a bit scary when your just snorkeling around minding your own business then all of a sudden one of these fish come out of the coral and try and start a fight with you.

But in reality they are just protecting their family.
And their bite don't hurt.

I took all this shots on my DJI Action 4 camera.
I hope you like them 🙂
Stay tuned for more photos from Lady Elliot island!

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