Five years ago, I began spending my summers in High Bar Harbor and became curious when I saw plastic pails in laundry baskets along the roadways. I subsequently learned that they were part of a larger effort to save the diamondback terrapins.

As my time in High Bar increased, I would occasionally see a mother turtle crossing the road, digging a nest or scurrying back to the bay, and from time to time, I would see the babies making their perilous journeys, too.