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The day before, Carol stopped by our breakfast table to say a turtle hatch was expected on Manda Island the next day. Did we want to see it? She explained that her original approach to saving the sea turtles was to dig up the eggs buried on Shella Beach and bury them on the resort property. Her daughter mentioned that it was essential to stack them exactly how they’d been layered in the nest. Carol subsequently established a conservation trust and implemented a more direct way to protect the turtles. Carol set up the Lamu Marine Conservation Trust < www.lamcot.org > in 1992 to protect endangered sea turtles. Since then the project has grown to also educate local children and the community on the importance of protecting the environment, to clean the beaches, and work to set aside locally managed marine areas.
A group of turtle watchers hopped into power boats and headed to the large mangrove channel on Manda Island. We hopped off the boats, walked through a bit of muck to dry land, then headed toward that white smudge of dunes in the distance.
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