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18th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
Nature's miraculous event

Every year in Rushikulya , Orissa, one of the most spectacular events take place, when thousands of Olive Ridley Sea Turtles come to this coastal region of Orissa to lay eggs, a phenomenon known as Arribada. But nature had some other plans and after four decades mass nesting and mass hatching took at the same point of time in India and it looked like the mother sea turtles came to escort their babies after laying their another set of eggs. Whereas in general, the Olive ridley sea turtles are orphaned by birth and struggle on their own to survive in this Blue Planet. But this time they had their mothers and were ready to take the upcoming challenges that they have to face beneath the sea.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 04.2018
Date Uploaded: 11.2020
Photo Location: Chhatrapur, India
Camera: NIKON D7200
Copyright: © Saurabh Chakraborty