Sea Turtle Festival - Environmental Festival Holiday Activity Phuket Thailand

Sea Turtle Festival - Environmental Festival Holiday Activity Phuket Thailand

Marine or Sea Turtles

Turtles are reptiles whose ancestors were amphimians. Turtles breathe with lungs, have three chambers in thier hearts, and heads and flippers that can not be kept in their carapace, or shell. Today the world's sea turtles consist of 8 species of which only 4 are seen in marine parks.

This popular local festival is held in March and April along the northern beaches of Phuket Island and the beaches just north of Phuket Island. Local beaches and resorts often have specific schedules for programs that vary from year to year.

Life Cycle of sea turtle
	After mating, female swim to beach at night, here she uses both beach flippers dig a hole into the sand.
	Laying egg which soft as leather, each does more than twice per year.
	Liquid from her eyes is for humidity control and sand protection
	When the turtle finishes laying the eggs, she then conceals the nest, covers the eggs pit with sand. She the goes back to the sea. The turtle leaves her tracks on the beach.

	Turtle eggs hatching period is about 60 days.
	At night, after hatching, the young turtles climb up to sand surface and move to the shore and clumbsely swim to the deep sea where they survive by floating in the sea currents.

Sea Turtle Festival - Environmental Festival Holiday Activity Phuket Thailand