Qiu Yinong, Class 2, Grade 4, Nanshan Second Foreign Languages School

南山第二外国语学校四年级(2)班 邱亦浓

During the National Day holiday I went to the National Huidong Natural Sea Turtle Reserve which is the only sea turtle reserve in China.

I saw many beautiful sea turtles, young, middle-aged and old. I saw some sea turtles that are the same age as me. They are so cute and have green shining backs. I saw some sea turtles that are the same age as my father. They look old and have dark green backs. They are bigger than other sea turtles.

Then I went to the beach where sea turtles lay eggs. Each year, sea turtles come up from the sea and dig holes in the sand. Then they lay eggs in the holes. At last they cover the eggs with sand and go back to the sea. Usually each nest has 100 eggs! The eggs look like small ping-pong balls. The sea turtles like eating sea grass and tiny fishes.

There are not so many wild sea turtles in the world and we should protect them.