Sea Turtle Center on Jekyll Island

Today we drove up to Jekyll Island. We drove around the island and looked at the high $$$$......

 Inns and some houses where the wealthy and elite families of the late 1800's had winter homes. This is the Jekyll Inn. Our main reason for going to the island was to visit the.........

 Sea Turtle Center. We saw a couple yesterday that told us about it and was telling us that you can adopt a sea turtle and follow it for as long as it lives. We watched a movie of the life of a sea turtle that was very interesting. The sea turtle's have a rough life and not many of them make it. Inside the museum they had a lot of hands on things to learn about the turtles.

 This turtle is 3 years old and will not be able to be released back into the ocean because he wouldn't have the instincts of how to protect himself.

 They weren't working on any of the turtles while we were there, but they had the turtles that are about to be released in tanks. This coming weekend they are releasing 5 turtles that have been in the hospital and ready to go back out. They have GPS transmitters on them so they can track where they are. Some of them are so injured they will never be released. If you want to read more about them this is the web site. http://georgiaseaturtlecenter.org