How often do you see …?

Secret beach 4/5/6 April

On our first night here we watched the sun set over the sea from the cosiness of the Tardis, parked at the top of the beach. And it did. Set that is. Astronomically not very surprising, but we watched it set and disappear beneath the horizon without the usual clouds that rise up to frustrate us. And we have the pictures to prove it, lots of them. How often have you seen that at the seaside?

Late this afternoon, we found something astonishing on the beach. What is the most amazing thing you could find? Well it was not a lump of whale vomit worth tens of thousands of Euros. The beach could have had lots of such nodules that we mistook for slate. But anyway, you will never guess so I’ll tell you….. It was a turtle. A real turtle; but not a real-live-turtle because this one had its head, a flipper, and a few vital organs missing, but it was nevertheless a real turtle that very recently used to be a real live turtle. About 60cm long, and we have the pictures to prove it.

Which poses some questions:

1.       Was it edible? I was ready to get the BBQ out and was wondering which tools to use to cut it open (A machete is not in my Iveco mechanic tool set) and a sinic screwdriver is just not up to the job. Bear in mind that blood was still seeping out, so it must have been fresh and seemed to have most of the meat intact. Karen was with me so we never found out.

2.       Is it legal to clean it up and take the shell home? Given that we had not killed it, or bought it from anyone, and that there is free movement of this and that through the EC. We can’t ask google so it was just left on the beach for nature to deal with.

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