:24:02
...for their annual egg-laying.
:24:04
Once a year, the female
of the sea turtles...
:24:08
...crawls out of the sea
onto the blazing sand beach...
:24:11
...of a volcanic island
to dig a pit in the sand...
:24:15
...and deposit her eggs there.
:24:18
It's a long and dreadful thing,
the depositing of the eggs in the sand.
:24:22
And when it's finished...
:24:24
...the exhausted female turtle
crawls back to the sea half-dead.
:24:30
She never sees her offspring.
:24:33
But we did.
:24:34
Sebastian knew exactly when
the sea turtle eggs would be hatched.
:24:39
- We returned in time for it.
- You went back?
:24:42
In time to witness the hatching
and their desperate flight to the sea.
:24:47
The narrow beach, the colour
of caviar, was all in motion.
:24:52
The sky was in motion,
full of flesh-eating birds.
:24:55
And the noise of the birds...
:24:57
...their savage cries
as they circled...
:25:00
...over the beach
of the Encantadas...
:25:02
...while the new sea turtles
scrambled out...
:25:05
...and started their race to the sea.
:25:08
- Race to the sea?
- To escape the flesh-eating birds...
:25:11
...that made the sky almost black.
:25:14
And I said, "Sebastian, no.
No, it's not like that."
:25:19
But he made me look.
He made me see that terrible sight.
:25:24
- What was not like that?
- Life.
:25:26
I said, " No.
:25:28
No! That's not true!"
:25:31
But he said it is.
:25:33
He said, " Look, Violet.
Look, there on the shore."
:25:37
And I looked and saw the sand
all alive, all alive...
:25:42
...as the new-hatched sea turtles
dashed to the sea...
:25:45
...while the birds hovered
and swooped to attack...
:25:48
...and hovered and swooped to attack.
:25:52
They were diving down
on the sea turtles...
:25:55
...turning them over
to expose their soft undersides...