Touched gently by time

Turtle watching 

Leather-back sea turtle watching in Tobago gives you the chance to travel back, to a time before dinosaurs and witness a struggle for survival that's been going on for over 220 million years

Leather-back sea turtles nest every 2 to 3 years, returning up to 6 times a nesting season to deposit broods of between 80-100 tennis-ball size sea turtle eggs on each visit, 70% of which will hatch in between 60-70 days, just prior to dawn.

It's also amazing when you witness leather-back sea turtle hatchlings, newborn babies about the size of a young teenagers hand, as they scamper down the beach early on a cool Caribbean morning, and slip away into the tumbling surf to make their way seaward into an environment that is becoming increasingly hazardous to their health, making it extremely difficult for them to survive until adulthood. Only 1 in 1,000 will return to the Tobago beaches.