The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 24, 1949, Page 6

— =o en ie aS o,"* a seaweed patches. Nets they reach the top themselves ensnared placed nets of the who are experts trade—the art of which down from father to on the Cayman Islands. Often mets are 125 feet long and e@areful handling. The ate taken from them, Mippers tied together with w their slapping ther; then with gentle care! are placed aboard the om their backs to. pre- went their enormous weight from - Ii the beautiful moonlit waters between the Cayman Islands ‘Gib the Mosqhito Cays, bobs float from nets far above the heads @f Wnsuspecting tropic leviathans. All day long the giant green seq turtles have been feeding ‘edily on the lush eel grass, which is sweeter in the waters coast than anywhere else in the world. ‘strict vegetarians and eat naught but sea- ae. where their nests are hidden among fav- — A tn te nt Presumably all policemen in Laredo are eating Thanksgiving turkey today. Yesterday a wo- man walked into pees head- handed » Sergéant pga "9 checks for»$2 each. She said she wanted every police- members of the force, and at the woman’s request, kept her identi-~ blanket of*more“than six ~inches ty a secret. — ‘water, warm. and hatch her ‘About six weeks later the baby turtles emerge and from the very start are on their Own. They are jelly-like, and by instinct know ‘that fish will devour them; there- fore, water close to the. shore until| they growin size and strength.| West, with rain in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, Most of Gali- and Not until then do they move into deeper waters, When. first hatch- ed they are about the size of a silver dollar, and ip youth travel in schools, eating seaweed and gaining confidence as their tiny bodies gain in weight. 1 AREDO, Tex, Nov. 4). nA CHICAGO, Nov. White Thanksgiving falls "ranging ‘inches. Ts he to have’a turkey dinner to- : as low as six degrees abo Pena distributed the checks to snow is | at ‘Willmar. leaving it to the sun to young. go said that the snow is ex, yur th but a few highways in Iowa they remain in shallow, snow-packed and slippery: , fornia: has mild weather, skies generally are clear over southern half of the country. New England, the cold. wave subsided. Green_sea ‘turtle: meat is con- sidered one of the most nutritious}On that day ‘rough seas known to man, s much like veal. There are three distinct shades’ of meat: red, white and light red. Quite) caped by’swiminffig oub, in often one will ona people in a restaurant exclaim slowly rise to the water's surface to breathe and/tixe pork or chicken,” but most in their lungs, before they swim to their favorite] folks say it tastes like veal cutlet. It is a distinctive dish, and eee d b it dining-rooms _ pride table, then one may say that only oe a oe ing it fit for 4 gourmet. ; they cling during the night. In the first flush the sigh of the turtle is lost. The shells are used for bird}*. baths, advertising signs, and have: — many other uses, besides being! made into curios. 4 Highly Intelligent deep are among nature’s most in- teresting, and though they may not look it, close observation and study will prove them to be highly intelligent With pleasurable delight I re- call.a sparkling, bright, full-moon night last June. Frank “Butler” them. The captor then hie imitials on the soft belly for individual When the turtles are de- to th® Key West factory monsters can live on decks 16 to 18 days. aboard but water must be poured them several times daily,: of which they drink. When has its load of near- turtles it starts its swift to Key West, where the backs of these of the deep, often four @eroms, may be seen swim- Sententedly in their new The kraals are cement built to allow the sea water fireulate freely with the ebb flow of the tides, and quite ne may see fish swimming the turtles, who never them. Seaweed being their food, two divers employed “the factory bring dinners for thajesties, the green sea aristocrats of the sea. Of Relief the kraals they rise to the Witfece frequently and take deep of air; their ‘breathing very much like a great eh of relief. Many are shipped Key West alive to distant Placed on their huge backs, en open crate that just, fits them, they. are. flown, to their @estination, where weeks later their tender, delicious steaks’ may be found on the dining tablesi of @eurmets in New York, Phila- or Boston. sea turtles are absolute- ty harmiess. Boys, by placing the lesped hands beneath the turtle’s, throat, to prevent his diving, may often be seen riding them in the wetet. Many are found in the weters of the Gulf surrounding Key Wert, but not in large enough quantities for commercial purposes: Then too, the eel grass adjacent te the Caymon Islands gives the turtle from that vicinity its rare, @electable flavor. Many connois- eeurs consider the soup made from these creatures a lucious treet, end say the flavor is great- ty emhaneed by adding a small quantity of sherfy, “wine to the soup Wiler the can is opened, be, fore “placing, on the stove 1o| Peats a third time she. only lays var, 3 This particular variety of turtle i said W live to be ‘500 years old, Ge often weighs 500 pounds. A Tew have been known to reach Qe) pounds. In the City-owned Aquarium there is a beautiful specimen which weighs 500 pounds, and is so gentle Captain William Kroll has taught it to eat from his hand; unlike its brothers end sisters, this one also eats bits of fish cut up for that purpose. The Aquarium is at the north end of Whitehead Street, and when you visit there, ask the Captain te let you ride his gentle 500- pound green sea turtle pet. in preparing them for the mar- kets of the world, nothing is Key, drove ‘me to the Bahia Honda bvidge thirty-odd miles east of Key West to the shore of the Atlantic Ocean. There we built a fire and cooked © the fish we caught—incidentally,, what a delicious meal that was in the open, under the starlit sky, the bridge span 65 feet above us, and the shimmering blue and ‘green waters of the ocean at our feet. We had gone there primarily to watch a mother turtle lay her second nest of eggs. Every: mo- ment of our six-hour stay was tense with excitement, and a new thrilling experience. There were six members in our party, and while some tended the fire, others walked in opposite directions scanning the beach for turtle tracks. Exactly thirteen days be- "fore that date, a mother turtle had been seen on that beach, and according to precedent, she was to return the particular night we chose, and at high tide. Our pres- ence there would have no effect whatever on her according to my companions, native Key West fishermen. She would complete her errand and return to the waters, disregarding us and the fire entirely. Hard To Locate During the months of May, June and July these mother tur- tles crawl at full tide, high on the: beach; dig a beautiful hole in the sand, funnel-shapped, the point 6n the bottom. The top of the hole is usually, about eight inches in cireun:ference. So precise is her art that no machine could possibly duplicate her handiwork. The dimensions of the hole are perfect, and when it is completed, she lays her eggs, about 150 the first time, starting with one on the bottom, and then proceeding upward in beautifully placed circles toward the top row, which invariably contains a full dozen. This nest she carefully covers with sand, and camouflages the spot cleverly| with grass. and whatever lays nearby. So perfect a job does she do that experts seeking her eggs find it exceed- ingly difficult to locate them. On her second visit to the beach she usually lays about 250 eggs, sometimes only a few feet from her first nest, and if she re- about 75 eggs. Generally she-lays ‘between four and five hundred eggs during her threé-’ visits, in three separate nests. Her. eggs look very much like golf balls, though somewhat smaller, smooth and soft-shelled, and when press- ed by the fingers remain in- the indented condition much. as a punctured rubber ball will do. Many people are extremely fond of this delicacy, and gladly pay a premium for the eggs. A Mystery Of Nature How this intelligent creature can dig so beautiful and perfect a cone-shaped hole 19; inches deep with her flipper, which is only 14 inches long, is one of na- ture’s mysteries. When she is campletely satis- wasted. If only the squeal of the pe ie lost in preparation for the fied that her nest’ is well hidden, the mother turtle crawls into the comes ill w schooner, or ‘after ‘it has reached the Key West kraals, it is gently placed‘ into the Gulf waters. These creatures from the briny} May Return Here | island city had its first . severe tastes very dark | huridreds. of green sea: furtle turquoise waters of the? “It . tastes | Mexico,-thence through the sively proved in comi: for. many will be ca and returned to Key When a green sea turtle be- while; aboard the a perfect compass, and it is parent they know direction, ¢ It is not rare for a native Cay- the second time. 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Roads | fed olives, sliced pickles, sali are usable in all.of the snow areas} French dressing, hot rolls, Another wet spot is in the Far hurricane in nearly tilirty years. strong winds destroyed the con-| “ crete posts ~of~ the ~kraals~-and’ ribbean Sea back to their original homes near the Shores of Nicara- gua, seven hundred miles, from Key ,West: This will be . conclu- months, it. again’ lest. The bones of their front flippers form man Islander to - catch a turtle Monroe Market and doughnut hour this 3 rere Fr: c ise were Frank Perry, SN, many areas of the Middle West today. There is snow: in the east-| onr,°f, Hanover, Conn., burg, Md., and Felix members of the crew of the Williamsburg, the yacht is dent Truman’s. f e | ‘Typical’ of ‘the memus that to ‘ zero fay at Pembina, N. 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