Happy Mother's Day

So it's a little lame to recycle an image from a recent post, but I really can't find another that gets my interest quite as well as this one. All the exhausted mothers returning to sea after laying their eggs on the beach at Ostional, Costa Rica. It's amazing, really, to watch them swim in from the ocean, drag themselves high enough up the beach so that the eggs won't simply float away when the tide comes in, dig a deep enough hole in the sand to protect the nest from predators, laboriously deposit their leathery eggs in the nest, and finally clamber back down the beach to begin the trek back to wherever they came from.

Thanks, Moms.