Plage de l'Anse Dumont, St Felix Guadeloupe

Sunday 

20/11/16

We are running out of beach to go!!! hahhaha it was funny when nico said we basically already went to all the beaches here in Guadeloupe but he forget that we haven't check the least famous and small beaches around. 

So today we heading to St. Anne again and decided that we will just follow the signage and stop at the beach we haven't went before. We end up at Plage de la Dumont, St Felix. 

The road heading to this beach is unpaved, parking is limited and by the road side. It was raining before we go and water pond is everywhere. 

The beach itself was just ok, plenty of dried algae on the beach but there's a lot of tree to take cover from. Since it was raining the night before, the water wasn't so clear and we had to swim among the leaves which is kind of annoying. 

BUT this is also where we had one memorable day at the beach. We were swimming among the leaves as i said before and get annoyed since it wasn't enjoyable. Then, i saw something and guest what? Its a baby turtle!!! 

I thought it was some drifted wood or something until i look at it closely. It has same color with the seaweed it use to drift around.  Nico already swam further from me so i had to guard the baby turtle carefully before nico arrived. I also thought that its dead since its not moving. When nico arrived, i told him to guard the turtle and i ran like hell to get my phone, thank god the baby turtle didn't escape by the time i came back. 

After few research on google, we came to conclusion that this might be Long Head sea turtle baby. Which apparently endangered and we don't know how its get near the beach since its wasn't hatching season in Guadeloupe. 

We took the turtle further from the beach and only can hope it will survive the rough ocean. We show the turtle to a family with kids and their mom get upset saying we shouldn't touch the turtle. Little that she knows that there's more predator on the beach and baby turtle can die in the hot sun. At least we know that we safe the turtle from becoming some house pet here in Guadeloupe. For more info on Long Head turtle, please read the link here. 

When we found the turtle, it was floating, yes floating on top of the seaweed. It didn't dive right back in even after we pick it up and put it back on the seaweed. We end up taking the turtle away from people around and further away from the beach, guard it until it decided to dive into the water.