I’ve been a surfer and an ocean swimmer and sailor for over 15 years, so sea turtles have a special
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Mission Sea Turtle
Here’s your mission should you choose to accept it: hold you breath for a month, eat an entire salad bar, swim a marathon a day for 2 weeks, while figuring out how to get to a place you haven’t been to since you were a baby 30 years ago, without the help of signs, GPS, maps, helpful policemen or Google Earth, then at your destination mate non-stop for a few weeks, lay a few hundred eggs at night in a hole you dug with your back feet without looking, now swim back to where you came from to eat some more salad bars and get ready to do it again. Each year. For the rest of your life. Which is long.
Gigantothermy Lets Leatherbacks (and Dinosaurs) Go Where No Other Reptiles Dare to Go
When you think of a turtle, you probably think of those hard-shelled, slow-moving, reptilian relics whose ancestry stretches back hundreds
Day Five: Spring Break!
Hello Race fans! I’m Race commentator Rowdy Gaines, with my partner, the famous world-traveling turtle, Mr. Leatherback. The new week
From the Coach: Amanda Beard
Hi Race fans! Although the Race is only a third of the way through, so much is happening. It’s incredible
Day Four: Play-by-Play
Hi everyone, Rowdy Gaines here, working on a Sunday calling the play-by-play of the Great Turtle Race. While everyone on
Mike Mills of R.E.M. on Nightswimmer and the Great Turtle Race
Rock music heroes R.E.M. are teaming up with Olympic swimming legend Janet Evans to give Nightswimmer, a 440kg (970 lbs)
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Day Three: Pushing South
Rowdy Gaines here on Day 3, and now the Race is really on – Lindblad has left the Gulf and
Day Two: Leaving the Gulf
Hi, I’m Rowdy Gaines, with my color commentator, Mr. Leatherback, on Day 2, of the Great Turtle Race! ON THE
Don’t Eat the Turtles When You Order the Shrimp
Headed to the supermarket to pick up some fish filets for dinner? Or perhaps you’re going to your favorite restaurant
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