The world according to me....

Often, people want to know how I first became interested in sea turtles. I never had pet turtles or even thought about them when I was young (except when watching cheesy Gamera movies). Actually, sea turtles were just a convenient ploy to get what I really wanted: travel. It was even more specific than that: my goal was to travel to Suriname. Before I could make my trip to Suriname a reality, I had to first visit St. Croix in the Caribbean, and Boca Raton, Florida for work with sea turtles. It was during this time that the whole turtle experience grew on me, so by the time I got to Suriname, I realized that turtles were pretty cool. Since then, it has been a happy coincidence: I like working with turtles and I like travel. Indeed, I am sometimes amazed that I am paid to work with turtles….