--- description: Nesting season is from May to October title: Watch Adorable Baby Turtles Crawl to the Ocean image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Adorable Baby Turtles Crawl to the Ocean by [Eliza Gray](/author/eliza-gray/) ## Eliza Gray Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 1, 2015 7:26 PM CUT by [Eliza Gray](/author/eliza-gray/) ## Eliza Gray Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Aug 1, 2015 7:26 PM CUT Beach sand isn’t the easiest place to walk, especially if you’re a baby turtle. In [this video](http://www.naplesnews.com/news/environment/watch-baby-sea-turtles-crawl-to-the-ocean-barefoot-beach "undefined") shot by Mike Ross of Naples, Fla., young turtles carefully crawl out of the sand at Barefoot Beach and make their way slowly into the waves of the ocean. The nesting season for turtles is May through October, according to the [Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission](http://www.myfwc.com/research/wildlife/sea-turtles/fl-sea-turtles/faq/ "undefined"). Turtles make between 40,000 and 84,000 nests annually on the Florida coast. Each nest contains between 80 and 120 eggs. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3981239/turtles-beach-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3981239/turtles-beach-video/"},"headline":"Watch Adorable Baby Turtles Crawl to the Ocean","datePublished":"2015-08-01T19:26:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:54.922Z","description":"Nesting season is from May to October","url":"https://time.com/3981239/turtles-beach-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Gray","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-gray/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3981239/turtles-beach-video/","name":"Watch Adorable Baby Turtles Crawl to the Ocean"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Waking the Dead: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life","description":"Conservationists and scientists have a saying, \"extinction is forever.\" But soon biologists will clone long-gone animals in the hope to redefine that axiom to \"DE-extinction is forever.\"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/7mURxfr4/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-03-12T14:27:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7mURxfr4.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3981239/turtles-beach-video/","duration":"PT4M3S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3981239/turtles-beach-video/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```