Eleanor1

Casey Key Loggerheads 2010

A project of Mote Marine Laboratory.

click map for full-size version

Full-Size Map (150KB)
Zoom Map (103KB)

Species: Loggerhead
Life Stage: Adult
Gender: Female
Release Date: 2010-06-18 03:00:00
Release Location: Casey Key
Last Location: 2011-03-28 14:45:17

Adoptive Parents:
Tammara Billik
Barbara & Michael
Wendy and Deb Wiltshire

Background

Eleanor is a previously untagged female and a big girl at 109.3 cm curved carapace length. She also carries a solar powered geomagnetic tag.
Hurricane Paula passed directly over Eleanor on Oct 13 as she was in the Yucatan Straits West of Cuba. Looks as if this did not affect her path in the least.
Eleanor is the first Casey Key nester who has entered the Caribbean as a foraging ground, and since she's still swimming, it will be interesting to see where she stops for the foraging ground.
Eleanor stopped near Middle Pedro Cay on the Pedro Banks, one of Jamaica's archipelago islands. A Jamaican Coast Guard station and a fishermen's camp with number of huts and a large shed are in the southeast. The bank is composed of a variety of marine habitats such as sand, coral reefs, deep reefs, sea grass beds, and three coral cays known as the Pedro Cays. Because of its size and distance from mainland Jamaica and its relatively intact biological systems, it is one of the country's last remaining healthy marine ecosystems.