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The Old Lady of the Sea The cockerel squabble erupting from the mango tree outside roused me from my fatigue induced slumber. It was early, earlier than I would have cared to have risen after almost twenty-four hours of airport waiting rooms and smaller-than-I'd-care-to-suffer plane seats. I had awoken in the little sunshine paradise of Tobago. I had travelled to Tobago as part of an expedition, our goal, to aid a small local NGO, SOS Tobago in protecting endangered Atlantic Leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) from poaching and disturbance as they nested. These pre-historic anim...
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