Before there were whales… before there were sharks… there was her . The sea turtle has sailed these currents for over one hundred million years. She watched dinosaurs walk the shore. She was here when the continents drifted apart.
But the ocean has changed faster in her lifetime than in the last million years. A plastic bag looks like a jellyfish—her only food. A fishing line becomes an anchor she cannot cut. She is the last of the dinosaurs, facing a new extinction. turtle documentary
Here’s a short, evocative narrative piece written for a nature documentary about sea turtles. You can imagine it spoken over slow-motion footage of a turtle gliding through a sunbeam or struggling across a beach. The Ancient Mariner Before there were whales… before there were sharks…