After 12 nights of research we have counted close to 2200 individual flatbacks and 5 hawksbills...
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Crab Island, located in remote northern Australia, is the largest nesting rookery in the World for the rare Flatback Sea Turtle. It is a hostile island, where few people have ventured, largely due to it's reputation for large saltwater crocodiles. In 2007 Brett & Kelsey Leis embarked on a research project over several years discovering the secrets of the turtles & crocodiles. What they found has since lead to documentaries by National Geographic & BBC.
Crab Island Flatbacks
- Brett Leis
- Crab Island is located off the North West coast of Cape York, Australia. It supports the World's largest nesting population of the endangered flatback sea turtle.
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- Back to Civilisation
- On the beaches of Crab Island...
- Under Surveillance
- Disturbing coincidence
- Crocodile Attack!!
- Jabirus
- Brett's life saving dive!
- The ghosts which wander the oceans
- Remote tropical island, turquoise waters, white sa...
- 52oC (126oF) and the girls are emerging!!
- Another day, another new snake...
- Locals visiting Crab Island
- The story of K96151 and K96152: sisters or best fr...
- Success in tag returns!
- The Lost Sea Turtles
- You know you have been in the wilds too long when…
- Wanted: Snow shovel
- Turtle Magnets
- A moment to savour
- Hey Daz, we found Baz!
- The things you find on the beach.
- Flatback sea turtles: endangered or not?
- Meet our new neighbours
- Scurrying from Sand to Sea
- A moment of mayhem..
- Not the usual looking Flatback hatchlings
- Turtle Tally
- Saltwater Crocodiles: a major predator of hatchlin...
- Hatchlings in a backpack
- A barramundi EVERY cast!
- The heat has been turned up
- Nothing gets in the way of a turtle researcher..
- Just missed it...
- Welcome to our camp
- Back on Crab Island
- Turtle Tally...
- Missing the Turtles...
- Where is Crab Island??
- Salty, sandy, bumpy and soaked to the bone..
- Seafaris trip report
- Life on Billy's Bluff
- World Record.... maybe?!
- Some technical difficulties, but back online..
- Migration of the Bee Eaters
- Awww… Hatchlings!!!
- Nesting Tally
- The Significance of Crab Island’s Flatback Sea Tur...
- Desert Storm
- Surrounded by turtles...
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1 comment:
You and Kelsey are a terrific TEAM ! I also want to tell you why she can tag so many- I think she is the incarnation of Mother Earth- it's all that wonderful estrogen- just like being at a baby shower- the turtles know one of their own !
Keep working for the betterment of OUR PLANET- we love you !!!
Your loving Godmother and Friend- Nancy
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