Fingers Crossed: A Funeral for a Hawksbill

As many of you know, it is a dream of mine to see every species/subspecies of sea turtle before I die. Left on my list are the Kemp's ridley, flatback, and hawksbill. I would like to say that I crossed one of those species of my list today, but it was dead, and I really want to see them all alive. This is also the first turtle since the day nester on Saturday, they have managed to avoid Tera and I like the plague.
We received a phone call at the station about an olive ridley that had washed ashore, dead, at marker 17.4. The kiddies, Tera, and myself decided to go investigate the cause of death. After limping down the beach (due to some horrific blisters on my left foot) we came across a turtle lying in the water table. Tera looked and said it wasn't a ridley so it must be a black, but then I noticed the overlapping scoots of its shell, a characteristic found only in hawksbills. Tera was talking about how beautiful she was, but then I felt the need to point out the penis which is normally inside the turtle and only comes out when mating. He also had large claws, unlike females. He was so much larger than I had expected him to be, and we could find no obvious signs of trauma even after flipping him over. It really was an incredible sight, I only wish I could have seen him alive. I feel like it is unfair to cross off hawksbills from my list of turtles left to see since it was dead, but males never come ashore (does that cancel out). I think I better find a live one just in case.

It really was an incredible sight so I am posting some pics, however, consider yourself warned that they are of a dead turtle. It makes me so sad that they couldn't be pictures of an alive one, but still an incredible sight to see.

On an up note, tonight was our night off and we had hot fudge brownie sundaes...I don't know if I've informed you that there are no desserts where I am in Costa Rica. The closest we get is the German bakery that delivers baked goods to our door step.