Headed back to sea

This, the nesting turtle mom highlighted in the previous post, spent a total of about two hours on shore. One of the onlookers saw her as she came ashore about 6 a.m. and it was almost 8 a.m. as she slowly made her way back to the cool waters of the Atlantic. There she could again feel almost weightless, so unlike her ponderous stay on dry land. It was hot too, summer's early morning temperatures were already in the mid 80s. The on-scene turtle patrol told us that she could be as old as 100 years old because of all the barnacles on her shell, and that she was hatched along this stretch of beach and returned to this area to lay her own eggs practically every year. What brought that all to home for me, was that my Dad was also born and raised right here along this same stretch of beach almost 100 years ago. Would it be weird for me to wonder if he had ever encountered this same turtle?