Turtle Brothers

We were fortunate recently to have taken a family vacation in beautiful Maui. The smell of the ocean, the beaches, and the sun are most amazing!

One day we were down on a beach watching the surf and surfers, and noticed a few dozen green sea turtles resting on the beach. One of the local marine experts mentioned to us that they often come ashore and rest for a while in the sun, away from the dangers of the ocean.

We sat there for a while watching them, but not only was it about watching the ones resting, there was a constant flow of turtles coming in and out of the water, starting or finishing their afternoon nap. It was quite incredible looking out into the shallow ocean and seeing turtle after turtle landing on shore for their afternoon siesta! We would also see them poking their heads out of the water looking into shore, making sure they got the right landing spot!

After about 10 minutes of this, we saw one bigger turtle land on shore and slowly push itself up the beach, in a fight between its weight and the drag of the sand. It seemed to be determined to get to a certain spot, and nothing was going to get in its way, because it came across a smaller turtle resting in the sand, and rather than go around, it went right over top! It was a hilarious sight as the bigger turtle squished the smaller one, body, face, and all into the sand!

As we were all laughing watching this, I leaned over to my two sons and said, “Hey, that must have been the smaller turtle’s older brother, because he did it on purpose!”

Well, I must say that some things in life are truly precious, and they are moments that you want to put in a box to relive at any time. One of those is the intense, full on laughter of young kids! After making my comment, my two boys burst out into a red-faced full on breathless giggle, that will live on in my memory forever! (And, not to mention watching big brother turtle climbing over his younger brother!).

Laugh on everyone, life is awesome.