I was able to watch this film via Netflix streaming video.
Miranda Richardson is the narrator. While she has a very pleasant voice, I cringed every time she said "further" to describe the little turtle getting "farther" from some point. But she was probably just following the script written for her.
The film is a product of a conservation organization, so it has a natural slant, but I did not find that objectionable. In fact I think it is a very noble, worthwhile cause, to help preserve our natural balance of wild creatures.
This film mostly shows the positive side of the life cycle of the loggerhead sea turtle. From other films we know that quite a large percentage of hatchlings are eaten during their first minutes of life. But the film follows one that survives, a female.
It takes us to sea as the young turtle makes its way from the sands of eastern Florida to relative safety, a mass of sea weed that is also the refuge of many other small creatures, some of which become loggerhead turtle food. Over about 6 years it survives in the North Atlantic and grows then makes its down to the Caribbean, where it will spend another approximate 15 years to grow and mature, then mate and return to Florida to its birth beach to lay her eggs.
The film makes the point that had the small turtle arrived in the Caribbean earlier in life it would not have been large enough to survive. That some mysterious wisdom inherited from her ancestors guided her to follow the path that she did.
Very good film, everyone with an interest in our natural world should see this.
Miranda Richardson is the narrator. While she has a very pleasant voice, I cringed every time she said "further" to describe the little turtle getting "farther" from some point. But she was probably just following the script written for her.
The film is a product of a conservation organization, so it has a natural slant, but I did not find that objectionable. In fact I think it is a very noble, worthwhile cause, to help preserve our natural balance of wild creatures.
This film mostly shows the positive side of the life cycle of the loggerhead sea turtle. From other films we know that quite a large percentage of hatchlings are eaten during their first minutes of life. But the film follows one that survives, a female.
It takes us to sea as the young turtle makes its way from the sands of eastern Florida to relative safety, a mass of sea weed that is also the refuge of many other small creatures, some of which become loggerhead turtle food. Over about 6 years it survives in the North Atlantic and grows then makes its down to the Caribbean, where it will spend another approximate 15 years to grow and mature, then mate and return to Florida to its birth beach to lay her eggs.
The film makes the point that had the small turtle arrived in the Caribbean earlier in life it would not have been large enough to survive. That some mysterious wisdom inherited from her ancestors guided her to follow the path that she did.
Very good film, everyone with an interest in our natural world should see this.