PLAYFUL SIDE OF SEA TURTLES DISCOVERED

HEY GUYS BILL HERE, you know in all my travels I have seen hundreds of sea turtles … I’ve even swam with a few, but I’ve never actually understood how playful they can be.
That I discovered on a recent trip to Turkey….
We were sailing along the Agean coast and decided to do a little sightseeing at a place called Turtle Beach. We heard there were a lot of Loggerhead turtles there.
In a lagoon behind the beach were some crab fishermen, who sell blue crabs to people passing through - like us…
We were looking at some of the crabs when I noticed one of the guys had a crab on the end of a fishing line and was using it to attract sea turtles.
The turtles were definitely loggerheads. They have very strong jaws and love to use those jaws to crush crabs for a nice meal…
But Was he trying to catch the sea turtles…or just give them treat? I didn’t know.
After a while, the crab man handed me the line, but as soon as he did that, the turtles went away… they wouldn’t even come close.
It was actually kind of embarrassing.
Finally, I gave up and handed the guy back his fishing line. But as soon as I did that, the turtles came back…
And this made we wonder, what the heck was really going on here?
On a hunch I pulled out my Gopro underwater camera, and stuck it in the water…
I could see the turtles come up and get their powerful jaws onto the crabs, but then for unknown reasons they would just let them go.
I’m not a scientist, but I think it’s pretty obvious what was really going on here. These sea turtles and Crab fisherman - who obviously know each other well —They’re just enjoying themselves -- like kids at the beach - they’re are just playing to have a good time.
Amazing - who would have guessed that man and turtle could develop a relationship like that,
And that my friends brings me to the question of the day. Do you think there are other creatures in the ocean that like to play with humans? If so, let me know which ones in the comment section below.