A snapshot from an earlier career herding turtles---invaluable
experience for a career in teaching.
I'm the one with the flashlight. The beach is the Canaveral National
Seashore in Florida. The turtle is a leatherback, one of about eight
that nested there that year (along with a few thousand loggerhead and
a few hundred greens). (Which is why we broke protocol and took
pictures after she had finished covering her nest.)
(She's not a very big leatherback.)