By the time they got to the beach, the mother had already finished laying all her eggs. "I don't know if she had been startled, or if she was worried that we might encroach upon her eggs, but she seemed reluctant to return to sea," says Chen.
到了海邊，海龜媽媽已經產完卵，「不知道是不是被嚇到，還是怕人類侵犯它未出世的寶寶，它遲遲不肯回到海裡」，陳美麗說。