Sentences with phrase «where sea turtles»

Next door to the resort is a protected area of beach where sea turtles lay their eggs, so during the season they can watch the eggs being buried by the mother turtle, or the tiny hatchlings scrabble down to the sea on organised turtle watching sessions.

In Puerto Morelos, there are three main beach areas where sea turtles arrive to spawn, Punta Brava, Punta Caracol and Petempich, and of these three, Punta Brava is the preferred egg - laying area.

You'll sail to incredible locations where sea turtles, tropical fish, and vibrant coral reefs await.

The hotel's name aptly named after the stunning 1500 foot stretch of white sand beach where sea turtles return to lay their eggs year after year.

Snorkel in the calm waters where sea turtles nest.

This is the spot where the sea turtles can be seen during mating season.

In March and April, they plan to visit Save the Chimps, a sanctuary for chimpanzees rescued from research laboratories, entertainment, and the pet trade industry, and the Barrier Island Sanctuary, an educational nature sanctuary, to take a tour and help clean up a beach where sea turtles lay their eggs.

And there is always a «by - catch» where sea turtles, dolphins, and other marine life is incidentally caught and killed during fishing.

For a more adventurous day trip, ferries and seaplanes depart from nearby Key West, carrying visitors 68 nautical miles to Dry Tortugas National Park, where sea turtles nest on secluded beaches.

Koloa Landing is just west where sea turtle sightings are guaranteed for snorkelers.

Remember that massively viral video from 2015 where the sea turtle had a plastic straw extracted from its nostril?

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The Turtle Hospital in Marathon doubles as a tourist attraction and sanctuary, where vets care for wounded sea turtles and educators give hourly tours of their 53 patients, including one young turtle named Irma after the storm washed it onshore when it was just a hatchling.

Give your children an unforgettable experience — snorkel or scuba dive the crystal - clear, warm waters of the Florida Keys to view the only living coral reef in the continental U.S. Head to John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park and the adjacent Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, where kids can see brain corals and sea fans up - close and swim with rays, turtles and tropical fish.

We were off to the aquarium, and along the way we passed a beautiful beach on top of a cliff (complete with hammocks), the biggest sea turtles I'd ever seen (right under my feet) and several tanks of baby turtles dashing about like Squirt from Finding Nemo, a large lagoon full of snorkelers, and a little man - made beach off the lagoon where tiny tots paddled about.

To the North, you have the Sunshine Coast, with Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo (an hour north); Mon Repos Turtle Centre, where you can watch sea turtles nest and hatch, depending on the season; Fraser Island; and access to the Southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef from the Town of 1770 (About 6 hours north of Brisbane).

Our wildlife sanctuaries around the state are living laboratories where scientists, naturalists, and volunteers monitor and measure a wide range of natural occurrences from stranded sea turtles to osprey migration to salamander counts.

While you're on your way up to North Shore, take it upon yourself to pop off at Turtle Beach or many of Oahu's beaches where you and your family can swim amongst the sea turtles.

We were able to use the resort's snorkel gear and take a quick walk down the beach to a reef where we saw giant sea turtles, fish, coral, and stingrays!

Frankenturtles Dead loggerhead sea turtles that researchers from the College of William and Mary in Virginia stuffed and floated in the Chesapeake Bay in 2016 to better understand where they travel and die.

In other studies where green sea turtles and tiger shark home range overlap have been analyzed, scientists have observed turtles that avoid isolating themselves at the water surface when they are vulnerable to ambush from tiger sharks.

But the finding might also help sea turtle rescue efforts — if programs can identify the locations where the fungal pathogens are likely to become a problem, they can focus their efforts in those spots, remove eggs from those more vulnerable beaches and raise only those eggs into baby turtles.

For the tens of thousands of sea turtle eggs incubating in the sands of the northern Gulf of Mexico — and dangerously near the oil — it's come to this: Officials are planning to dig up the approximately 700 nests on Alabama and the Florida panhandle beaches, pack the eggs in Styrofoam boxes, and fly them to a facility in eastern Florida where they can mature.

Specifically, they looked at two long - term warming and cooling cycles whose effect on sea turtles hadn't been investigated, one in the Pacific where Japanese turtles spend their formative years, and another in the Atlantic, where young Floridian turtles live.

And more and more sea turtles are also stranding themselves near Cape Cod, Massachusetts, hundreds of miles away from where turtles usually run into trouble.

Crush has gone on to star in his own Disney World attraction, where he interacts with guests and teaches them about sea turtles.

Her kids at John T. Waugh Elementary School write different types of poetry, including question poems that ponder where a seashell came from or why sea turtles eat grass.

Dr. Rahm has a special interest in reptile medicine and during his senior year in veterinary school was able to participate in externships with two prominent reptile medicine specialists, where he was able to assist in treating various animals such as alligators, sea turtles, Burmese pythons, and snapping turtles, while also taking part in trap / neuter and release efforts with the wild population of iguanas in the Florida Keys.

Where Kayak had been somewhat docile by sea turtle standards before, after her cataract surgery she became considerably more rambunctious — more normal behavior for Loggerheads, who actually tend toward the feisty and don't usually make good roommates in captivity.

When you enter the water where I told you to and snorkel south you'll be snorkeling along the 16th green of the Makena South golf course and in one of the best places to find Hawaiian green sea turtles in Maui.

Tim and Chase were our guides for this 5 hour, 4 dive trip to Molokini crater (2 dives), La Perouse Bay, and a reef dive near Wailea where there were huge sea turtles.

Or make the short drive to Marino Las Baulas National Park and see the sandy stretch where thousands of leatherback sea turtles hatch every year.

It's also where you can snorkel with sea turtles in the wild.

You are just steps from a terrific snorkelling reef, where you can enjoy swimming with the gorgeous Hawaiian fish and sea turtles.

The boat captains will steer you to safe snorkelling sites where you can marvel at the abundant colourful sea life and try to catch a glimpse of a giant sea turtle.

Just across the street is Brennecke Beach where you may spot our famous Green Sea Turtles.

For a complete island getaway, head to Gili Meno where you can swim with sea turtles at Turtle Point.

Snorkel with turtles on the Great Barrier Reef or horse ride along the beach on the shore of the Coral Sea at the only place in the world where a reef meets the rainforest.

Charter a boat to the beautiful Marietas Islands where you can snorkel in the warm waters and see numerous species of colorful reef fish, sea turtles, manta rays and more.

We spent an hour just watching the sea turtles and crabs near Shipwreck Beach, where sea life — as well as decaying ships — is abundant.

Most of the dives in this area are drift wall dives interspersed with sand channels where you may spot southern stingrays, spotted eagle rays, moray eels, sea turtles, barracuda, grouper, dolphins, and a wide variety of smaller tropical fish.

The beach is part of the National Marine Park where in summer the sea turtles, Caretta - Caretta, lay their eggs.

«Turtle Town,» where Hawaiian green sea turtles congregate, and Olawalu Reef are also popular places to snorkel on Maui.

There's another aquarium and reptile rescue centre in Hersonissos, where kids can see rescued sea turtles, and touch the lizards and snakes, or you could head to the water park for some slides.

Our snorkeling outings take us to the edges of drop - offs and walls where we may see pelagic species such as dolphins, tarpons, sea turtles, spotted eagle rays, and more.

I recently visited CasaMagna Marriott Cancún Resort, where in conjunction with their adjacent property, the JW Marriott have implemented a sea turtle protection and release program that protects and preserves this endangered species.

If you have more time, you can add some additional underwater adventures such as a visit to the walls on the ocean side of the reef, an exploration of coral caverns, or a stop at a dive site where freshwater springs bubble up from the reef, attracting Napoleon wrasse and sea turtles.

Our guides took us to the interior side and back wall of Molokini where there were lots of beautiful fish, and to a great spot to swim by sea turtles.

If you are willing to splurge on the trip, you can go where few tread, see unique flora and fauna and get up close to sea turtles.

Bordered by a rocky coastline, Villa Gauguin has direct access to the lagoon, a natural aquarium where you can snorkel, canoe or simply swim while looking for the adorable sea turtles which frequent this area of the Mayan Riviera.

Bacalar Chico National Park and Marine Reserve is lucky enough to have a unique phenomenon where the coral reef touches the coast, at Rocky Point, and the beaches are a nesting area for two types of turtles, the Green Sea Turtle - and the Loggerhead Turtle.