Lyn liked the laundry so much yesterday, she made a return visit today! My contribution this morning was to clean the stove.
After lunch we headed back to South Padre Island to visit the Sea Turtle Rescue Centre. The centre consisted of a number of above ground pools with rescued turtles in them. Some ot the turtles were just visitors waiting for injuries to heal before being returned to the water. Most injuries appeared to be the loss of all or part of a flipper(s). The most common causes of the injuries were shark attacks, boat propellers or fishing nets.
Others were there for the long haul as their injuries were too great to allow them to survive back in the ocean. There was one turtle there that had lost 3 of its flippers, which normally would be a death sentence, but this one was doing so well it was spared and is now being used to evaluate prosthetic flippers.
Turtle South Padre Island, Tx.
After we left the centre we moved on to a birding centre, although we didn’t see too much in the way of birds, a few pelicans and blue herons we did see an alligator sunning him/herself as we left.
Alligator South Padre Island, Tx.