A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 98

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back over to Hawaii to my favorite dive in the world. The turtle cleaning station. This picture is of a Green Sea Turtle being cleaned by reef fish at the cleaning station.

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 # 97

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 sea turtle hatchling as it makes its way down the beach towards the ocean.

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

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3 days until the great turtle adventure starts. Follow along as I and 2 Green Sea Turtles make our way from Vancouver Canada to Tumon Bay Guam

A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 96

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading up to Vancouver Canada. I am going to be taking 2 Green sea Turtles from Vancouver to Guam next weekend. A condition of the permit to allow then to travel to Guam is that they are both female. In sea turtles that are this young there is no way to outwardly tell the sex of the animal. But there is a way surgically to tell.
This picture is of Chris Harvey Clark the director of the animal care center at The University Of British Columbia performing a Laparoscopy. This is a surgical procedure where a small incision is made into the turtle and a small tube with a camera is inserted into the turtle. He is then able to locate and verify if the immature turtle has testis(male) or ovary(female).
We had to test 6 of the turtles at the animal care center to find our 2 females.

I am going back up to Vancouver on Thursday with the shipping crates to transport then to Seattle where they will go on a plane for that long trip to Guam.

I am sure that the trip down thru 2 border crossings will be a real treat.I will post pictures and details of this adventure.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-90 camera with a 12-24 mm lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 95

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day Today we are heading up to Vancouver Canada. I was up at the lab getting 2 Green Sea turtles ready for a big trip to Guam.
I will be posting the pictures as we make progress with the journey.

This picture is of the turtles as they swim in the holding tank.

This picture was taken with a Nikon D-90 camera with a 28-200 mm lens

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 94

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are heading back over to Hawaii to go diving with a Green Sea Turtle. On this particular dive we are at a turtle cleaning station. The turtles go here to be cleaned by reef fish.

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 # 93

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Todays picture is of the rarest sea turtle of them all. The Leatherback. The Leatherback is a soft shelled sea turtle and the only of the sea turtles that has a soft shell. They are the least understood of all of the turtles and the most elusive. They spend most of their lives on the high seas in search of their favorite food Jellyfish.
They can grow to be over 8 feet long and weigh up to 2000 lbs. This turtle weighed close to 100 lbs and was just over 2 years when this picture was taken.

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

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A Sea Turtle Picture A day # 92

Welcome back to A Sea Turtle Picture A Day. Today we are going back over to the Big Island Of Hawaii. This is a picture of a green sea turtle as it rests on the coral 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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