A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 166

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back over to Hawaii. This picture is of a young Green Sea Turtle(Chelonia mydas) that really liked my diving partner. Every time she took a photo of this turtle and the flash went off the turtle would swim right up to her to investigate the source of the flash. We were both able to get some good close up shots of the turtles face.

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

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 165

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to Mexico. This is a picture of a Green Sea Turtle that is being head started at a hatchery. After this turtle reaches ! year old it will be released into the ocean.

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

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 164

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 is being cleaned by fish at a turtle cleaning station.

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 # 163

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

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 20-200 mm lens.

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 162

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to the British Virgin Islands. Todays picture is of a Leatherback sea turtle hatchling as it is emerging out of the sand.

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

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 161

Welcome back to a Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to Mexico. This picture is of 3 leatherback sea turtle figurines that are used by the Seri Indian Tribe in ceremonial celebrations.the picture was taken at a celebration the Seri put on at the 28th annual International Annual Sea Turtle Symposium in Loreto Baja Mexico.

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 160

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to the beach on the island of Tortolla in the British Virgin Islands. This picture is of a Leatherback Sea Turtle hatchling as it emerges from its nest.

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

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 159

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back over to Hawaii. This is a picture of a Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) that has crawled out onto the beach to rest. Notice the time and depth recorder that is glued to its shell on the upper left side. This instrument is used to record the amount of time the turtle stays at depth and how deep it is.

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 # 158

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 (Chelonia mydas) that is just emerging from out under the coral where it was sleeping.

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

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 157

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today is the 100Th anniversary of Archie Carr's birth. Archie is known as the grandfather of all Sea Turtle researchers. The things that he discovered during his long research career have help us with our understanding of these awesome creatures. Happy Birthday Archie.

This picture is of 2 Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas) as they swim along the reef.

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

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 156

Welcome back to aA Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading over to Hawaii. This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle ((Chelonia mydas) as it swims along the reef. My diving partner and I were diving and this little turtle kept following as. we were both able to get a lot of good pictures of the turtle.

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

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 155

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading over to The Big Island of Hawaii. This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) as it swims out of an overhang that it was sleeping under.

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

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 154

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to the British Virgin Islands. This picture is of a Leatherback hatchling. This hatchling was dug out of a nest that had hatched 2 days prior to digging. We were counting all the eggs that had hatched as well as the ones that did not.

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


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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 153

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading over to the Big Island of Hawaii. This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) that is just heading thru the surf to haul out and bask.

This picture was taken with a N ikon D-90 camera with a 70-200 mm lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 152

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 at a cleaning station. Cleaning stations are certain areas on the reef where critters go to be have algae and parasites cleaned from their bodies.

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


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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 151

Welcome back and Happy World Ocean Day to everyone. This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle being cleaned by cleaner fish off the coast of the Big Island of Hawaii.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-100 camera with a 12-24mm lens


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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 150

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading down to Mexico. This picture is of a few Green Sea Turtle hatchlings that have emerged from their nest at a Sea Turtle hatchery. After this picture was taken they were brought down to the waters edge to be allowed to crawl down the beach and into the ocean.

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


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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 149

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 that is being cleaned at a turtle cleaning station. The turtles come to this particular section of the reef to have the cleaner fish eat the algae off of their bodies.

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 # 148

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading to the British Virgin Islands. This is a picture of a Leatherback Sea Turtle hatchling as it heads down the beach towards the ocean from its nest.

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


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A Sea Turtle Picture A Day # 147

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading over to Hawaii. This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle that has crawled out onto the beach to rest 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 # 146

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) as it swims along the reef.

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


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