The world according to me....

Take a look at that small turtle that Larisa found last Friday while out checking pound nets for turtles in Core Sound, North Carolina. She said it was the smallest loggerhead she had seen in inshore waters. It also had a flipper tag with an unfamiliar start to its 6 digit alpha-numeric code: SSS. We all were thinking that maybe it came from the Azores or Madeira Island in the East Atlantic. It turns out that it was released in Florida one month ago after being reared in captivity in Texas. It also had an older carapace wound, so we delivered it to the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Center on Topsail Island, where it will be treated and eventually released when it is fully recovered from its injury.