PADRE ISLAND - The discovery of a Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle Nest is a special event for the people at the Padre Island National Seashore.
A discovery made Monday morning was no different, but they are pretty shocked by where the turtle chose to lay its eggs.
Beachgoers on North Beach thought they were in for a quiet morning of sand and surf, but got a rare sighting of mother nature instead.
A group of seagulls gave away the spot where a Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle was laying its eggs.
"She looked like she was dancing when she was covering it up, tapping on top of. Then, she just went around to cover it up really good and then she just went into the ocean," North Beach visitor Maribel Perez said.
After taking some pictures on their cell phones, they called in the professionals, who used a large stick to find the outline of the nest.
After a little digging, they found 85 eggs, an average number in an unusual location.
Experts say to date, there is no record of a Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtle nesting in the bay.
"This is not normal by any measure. We usually see all our nests out on the Island proper, not here in the bay," National Seashore's Shawna Ertolacci said.
From there, the eggs will go to Padre Island National Seashore where they will spend the next two months in an incubation facility before being released into the gulf.
As for the people who got to watch history in the making, they'll go home with some pretty cool pictures to prove it.
