A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 145

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back over to Hawaii. This picture is of a Green Sea turtle as its swims thru one of the many overhangs that are underwater off the Kona coast.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 12-24 mm lens in a Light and Motion housing.

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 144

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading up to Vancouver Canada. This picture is of the largest Leatherback sea turtle ever raised in captivity.By raising this turtle in captivity the researcher was better able to figure the growth rates of leatherback sea turtles.


This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 60mm lens


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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 143

Welcome back to aA Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are going back to the Big Island of Hawaii. This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)that is being cleaned by a pale nose parrot fish and yellow tangs at a turtle cleaning station.

This picture was taken with a Sony HC-7 video camera in a Light and Motion underwater housing


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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 142

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are still here on the Big Island of Hawaii. This picture is of a young Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)that is resting in the coral. I was swimming along and I saw this cute little face peeking out from the coral at me.

This picture was taken with a Sony HC-7 Video camera in a Light and Motion underwater housing.

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 141

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are still in Hawaii. This is my last diving day so I am very hopeful that I can get a few more of the shots of Green Turtle behaviour that I am hoping for today. It has mostly been an awesome diving drip with Green Sea Turtles on every dive.

Today's picture is a new one for me. No it is a Green turtle(Chelonia mydas) that is being cleaned by pale nosed parrot fish yellow tangs and surgeon fish. It is one of the first still picture that I have used my video camera to take. I have always been so into shooting the video that I never even thought to hit the (photo) button on my housing. Looks like I have yet another way to capture Sea Turtle images.


This picture was taken with a Sony HC-7 Video camera Housed in a Light and Motion Bluefin HD Underwater Video housing


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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 140

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back to the Big Island of Hawaii. I am currently in Hawaii filming Green turtle behaviour underwater at a Turtle cleaning station. In the afternoons after filming I like to walk the lava flows that run along the sea shore and look for critters and turtles in the tide pools.
I came upon this particular tide pool and there were 3 young Green Sea Turtles that had become trapped in it.They stayed here all afternoon until the tide came in then they swam out onto the reef. They were using the tide poll like a hot tub.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-90 camera with a 10-17 mm fisheye lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 139

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are going to Hawaii. This picture is of my diving buddy taking a picture of a Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) as it swims along the reef.
This lil turtle followed us around the entire dive and allowed us to both get a lot of really good pictures.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 12-24 mm lens in a Light and Motion housing.

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 138

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading to the beaches of Hawaii. This picture is of a Green Sea TYurtle (Chelonia mydas) That is taking a nap on the beach.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 70-200 mm lens


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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 137

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. I want to wish all the turtles and turtle lovers in the world a HAPPY WORLD TURTLE DAY.
Today we are going to Hawaii. This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) being cleaned by reef fish.I am currently diving in this very spot and have seen many turtles being cleaned.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera in a Light and Motion housing

Have a great world turtle day and I will see you tomorrow.

A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 136

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are going back to Puako on the Big Island of Hawaii. I am here diving and getting alot of great turtle footage. When I am not diving I like to explore the island.
This picture is a Petroglyph of a sea turtle. Its age is not known(By me). I am always amazed that all of the places that I travel to take photographs of Sea Turtles that there are ancient paintings or carvings that are of Sea Turtles.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-90 camera with a 20-200 mm lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 135

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back over to Hawaii. This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) that has crawled out onto the rocks to rest in the sun.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 70-200 mm lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 134

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A day. Today we are back in Hawaii. This is a picture of a very young Green Sea Turtle that is resting on the coral. It was like this little guy was posing for the camera.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera in a Light & Motion housing

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 133

Welcome back to A Sea turtle Picture A Day. Todays picture is of a Green Sea turtle at a cleaning station.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 with a 12-24 mm lens in a Light and Motion housing

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 132

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are up in Vancouver Canada. Why you ask? Well I am helping in a study that is looking how science has effected sea turtles. Specifically how does drag from apparatus that we have applied to sea turtles bodies effect them as they swim.
We are here at a wind tunnel and we are putting these various objects on the turtles and we are figuring where the best place to put them on the turtles that has the least amount of drag on the animal.

These pictures were taken with a Nikon D-90 camera with a 28-200 mm lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 131

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back down to the British Virgin Islands.

This picture is of a Leatherback Sea Turtle hatchling that has just emerged from its nest and is heading down the beach to the ocean.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 60m lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 130

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back underwater. This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) as It swims underwater.

This picture was taken with Nikon D-100 camera with a 12-24mm lens in a Light and Motion housing


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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 129

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back over to Hawaii and underwater. This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle ( Chelonia mydas) that is resting under some coral along the reef.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 16 mm lens in a Light and Motion housing.

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 128

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are going to head back down to Mexico. Last summer(2008) I worked at a turtle hatchery in Mexico for a month. This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas). This particular turtle was raised in the hatchery for 1 year and then released.

This picture was taken with a Nikon d-100 camera with a 60mm lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 127

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are going back a few years to Hawaii. This picture was taken right as I was learning digital and all the associated head aches that were involved with the new learning curve.
This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle (Chelonis mydas) as it swims at me along the reef.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a borrowed 16mm fisheye lens in a loaned Light and Motion housing

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 126

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day.I want to wish a Happy Mothers Day to any mothers out there who follow this blog. Todays picture is of a Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) that is swimming along the reef.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 12-24mm lens in a Light and Motion housing

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 125

Welcome Back to A Sea turtle Picture A Day. Todays picture is at my favorite dive site in the whole world. I am planning on being back there in less then 2 weeks.
This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle as it swims between me and my dive partner. This is located off the West side of the Big Island of Hawaii.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 12-24mm lens in a Light and Motion housing

A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 124

Welcome back to a Sea Turtle Picture A Day. today e are heading over to Hawaii. This picture is of a Green Sea turtle that is hovering thru the water.

This picture was taken with a nikon D-100 camera with a 12-24 mm lens in a Light and Motion housing.


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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 123

Welcome back to a Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to The British Virgin Islands to Tortolla. This is a picture of a Leatherback hatchling as it makes its way along the beach.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 60mm lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 122

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to Colima Mexico. This picture is of my little assistant that was helping me at a turtle hatchery. She is releasing an Olive Ridley Sea Turtle hatchling that has just emerged from its nest in the hatchery.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 28-200 mm lens


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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 121

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading over to Hawaii. This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) That is basking in the sun

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 70-200mm lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 120

Welcome Back to a Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to the British Virgin Islands. This is a picture of a Leatherback hatchling right before a wave caries it out on the next phase in its journey of survival. I would love to be on this beach in 10-15 years and be able to see this hatchling return as a nesting female to start this circle of a a Sea Turtles life all over again.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 28-200 mm lens


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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 119

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back underwater and over to Hawaii. This is a picture of a green sea turtle swimming along. I love how digital photography really plays with the sunbursts.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 12-24mm lens in a Light and Motion housing


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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 118

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are going to head back down to The British Virgin Islands. My motivation in picking this picture is after watching the Leatherback turtles move from off the coast of Canada all the way to the Caribbean in the great turtle race.
Hopefully this newly hatched turtle will be able to survive the race out into the surf and the first few years to be able to compete in an upcoming great turtle race 10-15 years from now.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 60mm lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 117

Welcome Back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back down to Mexico to the nesting beach in Colima.
This picture needs no explanation . When I came upon this turtle We really could not tell what had caused its death. I was asked by the biologist that is running the research station to travel the 10 plus miles of beach that she and her team patrol for turtles and take a picture of all the ones that did not make it. This was not a task that I really wanted to do and was really amazed how many turtles had died along this stretch of beach.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 70-200 mm lens

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