This is the moment a giant leatherback sea turtle waddles back into the ocean after laying its eggs.<br /><br />Beachgoers were amazed when they saw the endangered marine creature on the Nai Thon Beach in Phuket, southern Thailand on October 1.<br /><br />Conservationists arrived to take care of the eggs. Officials from Sirinat National Park and the Phuket Marine Biological Centre later examined the nest and found 111 eggs - with 92 healthy and 19 infertile.<br /><br />They moved the eggs to the safer place while they wait for them to hatch.<br /><br />Thanapong Kuenoon, from the Phuket Marine National Park, said: "Everybody was excited by the eggs because it suggests the beach's ecology is good.<br /><br />"However, we moved the eggs to the safer place to guard them because we worried they could be stolen or damaged.''<br /><br />Conservationist Kongkiat Kittiwattwong said the turtle weighed about 300 kilograms and was the first sea turtle to breed this year on the island. <br /><br />The eggs will hatch in around 60 days, at which point the baby turtles will scamper into the sea to begin their life journey through the ocean.
