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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanJun 5, 10 Comments Off
Hello my loyal readers, how is your weekend going?? I first want to say thank-you for all the responses and compliments from this weeks photos, again you really keep me going with your positive feedback. I am also getting a lot of responses from new visitors to the www.coralreefphotos.com site and they are posting these wonderful comments back to me, we love reading them!
Today I did something a little different, I joined our head dolphin trainer Zenzi for a super fun swim with one of our juvenile Hawksbill Turtles we found during hurricane Omar. After hatching, baby turtles swim out to sea for several days. They then spend the next five to ten years drifting around in surface waters at the mercy of ocean currents, and they feed mainly on plankton. They are often found in huge rafts of drifting sargassum, a type of brown seaweed, where they are probably best able to hide from potential predators. Once they reach lengths of 30 or 40 centimeters they settle in one particular area around coral or rocky reef. When Omar came to visit it washed in around 6 baby Hawksbill Turtles and they have been residents at the aquarium ever since. So today we gentle took one of the turtles out of it’s man made lagoon and took it to a big deep pool fed by the ocean and let him go, he had a blast! Most of the time Zenzi just swam along side and watched as he did what turtles do, eat and swim. This little guy is so used to people that he completely ignored us and did his own thing and I was able to swim along side for some fun photos.
A big thanks to everyone who has been helping us look for a home for the last puppy but he still needs a place to call home. I know that anyone who spends two minutes with him will see how special he is and why we want to best home possible for him.
Off to bed, be back tomorrow, Barry
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