Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Sea Turtle Release



The Georgia Sea Turtle Center released a turtle last week. They made an event out of it. The turtle, Dylan, was rescued as a hatchling and has lived most of her life on Jekyll Island at the Tidelands Nature Center and then the GA Sea Turtle Center. She did live for a brief time at the GA Aquarium. The tide was ridiculously low the day she was released. It took a bit for her to actually swim off (I think because she couldn't get in water deep enough). But she did swim off, and now even has a radio device on the top of her shell.


Double click the picture to get a better view. They are posting updates on her progress here http://www.georgiaseaturtlecenter.org/index.html

1 comment:

Lindsey said...

What an exciting thing to watch! My children would have greatly enjoyed this. Thanks for sharing the story and photos. I enjoyed your blog!