Did you know that surfing with turtles it’s a very common experience in Costa Rica?
Costa Rica is a sanctuary for different species of sea turtles, having Ostional beach in the center of the Nicoya Peninsula, its main harbor. In this beach more than two million turtles nest during the year, the Kemp’s ridley being the predominant one with more than 60 percent of nesting. In 2013 a Guinness record was broken with more than 400,000 turtles nesting in one night.
Unfortunately, not everything is a fairy tale since turtles suffer from the pollution and garbage that exists in the sea. Which depletes their food and gets them trapped or mutilated with fishing nets or poison them with pieces of floatings that they confuse with food. Moreover, in all Central America sea turtles had been consumed for thousands of years as an ancestral practice in harmony with nature.