Turtlez

Today I went to the movies and saw a documentary on turtles!
Guess what this post is going to be about.

Good guess.

The movie was called TURTLE: The Incredible Journey, although a better title would have been TURTLE: The Mildly Interesting Journey, If You Like That Kind Of Thing.

The cinematography was excellent and the script was awful, especially as they made a point of following one turtle all the way from birth to first laying of eggs and talking about said turtle in a very humanising way so that audience became emotionally invested in said turtle. Then they pointed out that only one in 10,000 turtles makes it to the egg-laying stage... isn't it lucky that the one they chose to film ended up being the one that made it? Although, I guess it would break up the action events if the narrator was constantly saying, "...and then that turtle was eaten by a shark, so here is our new turtle." Pause. "...and then that turtle was caught by a fishing boat, so here is our new turtle."

I was going to throw in some interesting Turtle Facts, about how the turtle journeys from where it was born right across the world* and back again but then it turned out that actually the facts were not particularly interesting. So let's just have a couple of turtle photos and call it a night.

*maybe? my geography is not so great. it goes for bloody ages, though

Turtle photo for the ladies:

Aww. Cute.

Turtle photo for the gentlemen:

It was naive of me to think that Googling "turtle boobs" would be fruitless.