Morjim Beach Goa

This guide to Morjim Beach in Goa follows a forest guard who walks the sand before sunrise, tracking flipper marks left by nesting olive ridley sea turtles that abandon their eggs the moment they are laid. You'll hear how the Forest Department has worked since around nineteen ninety-seven to keep those clutches alive without their mothers, moving eggs into fenced hatcheries and waiting for the sand to do the rest. The guide also raises a newer worry, about how a hatchling finds its way to the sea in the first place, and what stands between this beach and the open water at night.