Just a little turtle hurdle 🦈😳 Once in the safety of the vast ocean, this baby turtle won’t come ashore again for 30 years 🐢 | National Geographic Animals

WATCH OUT BABY TURTLE! It’s turtle hatchling season on the Great Barrier Reef. Thousands of these little cuties will be making their way out of their nests and heading to the ocean. Sadly it’s not as smooth of a journey as it sounds. Predators are lurking in the air, on the sand and in the ocean. Seagulls, crabs and sharks will hunt these volatile critters pushing their chance of making it to adulthood to around 1 in 2000! What would you do if you were in my shoes when photographing these hatchl