The turtle
Hospital
On Marathon
Key we visited a turtle hospital. The hospital is for the rescue of sea
turtles. There are five types of sea turtles
found in the Florida Keys. Four are on the endangered list and one is on the
threatened list. It is a very popular
tour. If you want to go on the educational tour, make a reservation. The day we
went all tours filled. They offer seven tours a day. You can see a lot more at their web site, www.theturtlehospital.org , this way I
won’t bore you with a lot of details some of which I probably will miss. This is the second turtle hospital we had
visited. The other was in South Carolina.
Hopefully they are making a good impact to help the turtles survive for
future generations.
Some missing flippers, etc. Some will be released, other that can't be released go to a zoo.
Hatchlings about a week old.
Looks like a neat tour
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