Making the trek out to beautiful Mon Repos Beach with the family? Sounds the perfect time for a few terrible turtle jokes!

Watching tiny turtle hatchlings make their way down the beach, or the steady path of a mother turtle making her way up the sand to lay her precious clutch of eggs, is truly a 'bucket list' moment – and one that you certainly don't get to experience every day!

Every year, hundreds of turtles make their way back to Mon Repos Beach – the site of their own hatching, to produce the next crop of teeny tiny turtles.

Keen to learn a little more about these adorable little guys before you arrive? Then read on for some quick facts about the many turtles who chose to return to Mon Repos every year!

Queensland Parks Ranger Cathy Gatley answers some of our questions about her work at the Mon Repos Turtle Rookery