<p>Hundreds of sea of turtles were seen erupting from a nest on the beach of Heron Island, a popular breeding ground for the animal located off the coast of Queensland, Australia.</p><p>Dr Gaston Boulanger filmed footage of the phenomenon on March 4. It shows the turtle hatchlings escaping from the sand and moving towards the water.</p><p>“Normally one or two will pop out of the nest, but this time they seemed to explode out of the sand just like a small turtle volcano,” Boulanger told The Gladstone Observer</a>. “Each nest holds approximately 100 eggs and baby turtles take six to eight weeks to hatch, but only one in a thousand make it back.”</p><p>Boulanger also told Observer that Heron Island was one of the best areas to witness turtle hatchlings rushing to the ocean. Credit: Gaston Boulanger via Storyful</p><br />
