Rough Life For Sea Turtles

Dead turtles found on Ft Myers Beach.

Pine Island Sound & Kemp's Ridley Turtles

Tagging Kemp’s ridley sea turtles in Pine Island Sound.

Researchers from the Conservancy of Southwest Florida are tagging sea turtles in Pine Island Sound.

Huge Leatherback Visits Southwest Florida

There was an unexpected visit by an endangered, 500 to 600 lb Leatherback sea turtle, Monday at Delnor-Wiggins State Park, Naples.

The same turtle was spotted again today on Big Hickory Island off of Bonita Beach. It is being transported to Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota.

You just never know who's coming to visit. :-)


Update on the longline fishing problem.

Sea Turtle Tracking

I was just reading Two Turtle Trackers Blog today, which reminded me of something I posted a while back. A Loggerhead turtle had returned to Keewaydin Island for its 21st summer of nesting. Another came back for its 15th summer. Transmitters were put on them for tracking. I failed to follow through, and was happy for the reminder.

The Conservancy of Southwest Florida put transmitters on four Loggerhead turtles, all of which had nested on Keewaydin Island this summer. The transmitters are for collecting information as to where the turtles go when nesting season is over and if they return to the same places to nest. You can log on to follow their adventures. If you have never done this.......be sure to check it out. It's amazing!

Full story about this on News-Press.

By logging in at Seaturtle.org you can follow these and other turtles as they go on with their daily lives.