{"id":570,"date":"2008-09-22T22:38:51","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T02:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=570"},"modified":"2008-10-31T18:25:27","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T22:25:27","slug":"skill-luck-patience-yield-best-dune-emergence-sequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/?p=570","title":{"rendered":"Skill + Luck + Patience Yield Best Dune Emergence Sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skill<\/strong> brings you to the precise\u00c2\u00a0location where an extraordinary event\u00c2\u00a0MAY occur.\u00c2\u00a0 But luck<\/strong> ensures that you reach that spot at the once-in-a-lifetime moment when an extraordinary event\u00c2\u00a0DOES occur.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally, patience<\/strong> permits you to dwell at the right spot at the right time for that exact instant when everything comes together and a miracle happens.\u00c2\u00a0 Watch how these factors brought us to the perfect dune emergence sequence on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Hatchling Slaloms Down High Dune<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Experience\u00c2\u00a0keyed us\u00c2\u00a0to a\u00c2\u00a0certain set of dunes that lay within a dense diamondback terrapin nesting site.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Skill\u00c2\u00a0enabled\u00c2\u00a0us to recognize a series of fresh hatchling tracks that crisscrossed the dune face like trolley lines (see above).\u00c2\u00a0 But then luck kicked in.\u00c2\u00a0 It showed us a stream of tracks that appeared to\u00c2\u00a0converge on\u00c2\u00a0a single concavitiy in the dune slope (see below).\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Tracks Converge at Possible Emerging Terrapin Nest<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Patience gave us to time to wait and to watch the concavity without barging into the scene and disturbing the ongoing miracle of birth.\u00c2\u00a0 Seconds ticked by, then minutes, and finally a head poked through the shifting sand … and another one.\u00c2\u00a0 Hatchlings\u00c2\u00a0popped\u00c2\u00a0like slow-motion popcorn under the heat of\u00c2\u00a0the midday sun.<\/p>\n

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Hatchlings Emerge and Scramble to Safety<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Spying\u00c2\u00a0so many tracks when we arrived, we had hoped that perhaps one hatchling might be left to emerge.\u00c2\u00a0 As luck would have it, ten babies remained in the nest and they popped out in ones and twos over the next hour.\u00c2\u00a0 As a whole, the event proved our very best documented dune emergence sequence as a beautiful miracle unfolded before our\u00c2\u00a0eager camera lens.<\/p>\n

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Best Terrapin Hatchling Emergence Sequence<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Skill brings you to the precise\u00c2\u00a0location where an extraordinary event\u00c2\u00a0MAY occur.\u00c2\u00a0 But luck ensures that you reach that spot at the once-in-a-lifetime moment when an extraordinary event\u00c2\u00a0DOES occur.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally, patience permits you to dwell at the right spot at the right time for that exact instant when everything comes together and a miracle happens.\u00c2\u00a0 Watch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[325,343,21,339,341,151,225,340,337,338,336,335,342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turtlejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}