My friend Mark and I stopped by the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, Florida to check out the turtles currently being rehabilitated there. This nonprofit turtle research and rehabilitation center was named the "No 1 Best Free Attraction" in USA Today's 10Best Readers' Choice Awards for 2024, and as regular blog readers know, free is my favorite price point. Of course, you are greeted at the door by staff members, given an introduction to the center, and told that the Marinelife Center is free, but donations are welcome. And so you really feel obligated to give them something, and advice doesn't count. The photograph above is of Turtwig, a "subadult green" found floating by Interstate Research Group in 2009. Due to buoyancy issues, it was determined that Turtwig could not be released back into the ocean, and so it now spends its life being fed what looks like lettuce by staff members and ignoring visitors as it swims past them.
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