SERA · Editorial PrototypeDirection 1 — Island Field Journal
Field Notes · No. 07

The Residents

Some of the island
was here first.

Three-toed sloths keep the slow hours. Green turtles nest on the far shore. Between mangrove root and reef edge, the wild parts of Sera are not scenery — they are the hosts, and you are the guest who was invited.

Meet the residents
Reef and water at Cayo Coral
Chelonia mydas & the living reef 9°20′N · 82°15′W

“Seen most mornings off the eastern dock, unbothered, drifting the shallows before the boats wake.”