Amelia Island Sea Turtle Watch, INC

Sea Turtle Release

 

The Georgia Sea Turtle Center successfully released 3 rehabilitated sea turtles at Main Beach on Monday, October 17, 2011.  Duval (juvenile green), Marti (juvenile green), and Squall (adult female loggerhead) were sent back home to the ocean.  Click the link below for more information and pictures.

 

http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2011-10-17/story/sea-turtles-rehabbed-and-restored-sea-fernandina-beach

On Sunday, 5/22, Wild Amelia hosted a sea turtle release by the Georgia Sea Turtle Center, Jekyll Island.  Dr. Terry Norton and his staff brought two juvenile green turtles that had been rehabilitated at the center to release.

Theo is carried gently carried to the surf at Main Beach on Amelia Island.  He was released and eagerly swam away to his forever home.

Dori is on her way to the surf.  Another juvenile green sea turtle, Dori is sporting a radio transmitter.  She can be tracked on the Georgia Sea Turtle Center website,

www.georgiaseaturtlecenter.org

The 2011 Wild Amelia Nature Festival was held May 20-22, 2011. On Saturday, 5/21, the AISTW participated in the Wild Amelia Expo (below). 

2011 Isle of Eight Flags Shrimp Festival Parade

April 28, 2011

 

Volunteers with the AISTW participated in the 2011 Shrimp Festival Parade through downtown Fernandina Beach.

Volunteer carrying the banner in the Shrimp Festival Parade.