Sea Turtle Inc ~ South Padre Island

Last Sunday Morning on our vacation to S. Padre Island we visited Sea Turtle Inc.

The volunteers did a really great job with the program and it was very informative. Did you know there is a Sea Turtle that can be 8 to 9 feet long, Wow...now I don't remember what species but if you click on the Sea Turtle Inc. you can check out their website. If a sea turtle is washed up on shore or found in a net and it has 3 or more flippers it can be re-introduced to the wild...They have quiet a few sea turtles in tanks around the facility and we were able to interact with them too, Michael loved that.

Here Michael is using a scrub-brush to scratch one of the turles backs. This turtle loves to be scratched and Michael was thrilled to do it.

This turtle above is a female and is not able to be released back into the wild. She really took a shine to Michael.

This is Freddy the sea turtle. You show him the lettuce and then throw it into the tank and he eats it. Freddy lost a flipper due to a predator and was released 3 times but came back each time. Guess he thought it was safer to live in a tank...

We decided to adopt Freddy for a month and will recieve a photo and information on him in the mail...I was really impressed by the volunteers and what they have done with the sea turtles on the Gulf coast of Texas...amazing people and amazing turtles.

There are more photos on my flickr site...