March 14, 2024
3/14/2024 Current trajectories of our 4 post-nesting hawksbill turtles as of 3/14/2024. Makala (2023) and Vatu Mau (2024) seem to be in their home forage grounds while Vonu e Rao and Bule Lapa are still migrating. Our guess is that Vonu e Rao and Bule Lapa are headed for the Great Barrier Reef where Makala currently resides. 2/16/2024 Current trajectories of our 4 post-nesting hawksbill turtles as of 2/16/2024. Makala (2023) and Vatu Mau (2024) seem to be in their home forage grounds while Vonu e Rao and Bule Lapa are still migrating. Our guess is that Vonu e Rao and Bule Lapa are headed for the Great Barrier Reef where Makala currently resides. 2/13/2024 All three hawksbills have left the nesting beaches of Moso Island. B elow is a video of their trajectories since they left. Vatu Mau appears to have reached its home range on the southern reefs of New Caledonia, Vonu e Rao apprears to be headed across the Coral Sea with a likely destination of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia wh