Mewsette: Oh, yes! This is the purrfect place to start the day! E.T.: Mewhehee, oh! Da water tickles when it rushes ofur my feet. Phelicity: Oop! *mewgiggles* It's a funny tickle, it gots liddle fizzies in it. Ginger: Da sand is already nice an warm. Is da water warm? Mewsette: It feels good, fur bein right after dawn. E.T.: Phelicity, mew barely got a toe wet, hehe! Ginger, stick yer foot in. Phelicity: Look, I gots my feets in. Oh my, lookit ofur there! Ginger: Dere's something great big comin out of da water. It's moving! Mewsette: Oh wow, are we lucky! shhhh! That's a giant Green Sea Turtle! It must be time fur her to lay her eggs in the sand. E.T.: Wowsers, those are endangered, too. Dey come back to da beach dey were born on to lay der eggs. Mewsette: Yes, just once efurry two or three years from far out at sea, and she lays about a hunderd of them. E.T.: Look how big she is. Dey weigh hunderds of pounds. Phelicity: How soon does the eggs hatch? Will we still be here? Mewsette: No, they take about eight weeks. By then the mama's far away. So the hatchlings make a dash across the beach fur the sea. Ginger: Soon as dey're born? Will dey get dere okay? Mewsette: Not many of them. A lot don't make it befur some predator gets them. Phelicity: Awww..... I wish we could purrtect dem while they runs to the sea. E.T.: Well, this mama is laying her eggs real close to shore. Dey won't haff so far to run. Ginger: Let's tippy-toe away. Phelicity: Oh, lookit under dis log at the big blue crab! I didn't know any crabs was blue! Dat reminds me, we haffn't had breakfast yet an I'm starffin! E.T.: I saw a great liddle place and it's real close, come on! Look, da sandpipers haff come to da shore to get dere breakfast, too.!