Baby tortoises

It has been an interesting week.  We’ve had rain several times, which makes it muggy when the sun comes out and brings the mosquitoes.   We’ve also had a couple of power outages.  When it happens the whole island goes dark, not just a neighborhood.  It happened one evening when I was just about ready for bed anyway so I brushed my teeth by flashlight and woke a couple hours later when the lights & TV came back on.  Friday it happened again at about 11 AM.  The library has no windows and the computer I use has no battery back up, so I found my keys and closed up the library.  I walked around the station while I was waiting and found the tortoise nursery.   They collect the eggs on each of the islands and bring them to the station.  They incubate the eggs and keep the babies in the¨nursery¨ to protect them from predators then return them to the wild on their island of origin.  The numbers on their shells tell which island of origin.