The Turtle Hospital
Adapted from a former bar and motel on Boot Key, this nonprofit is the world’s only state-certified hospital for marine turtles, rescuing and rehabilitating animals that are sick or injured, especially by traumatic contact with humans, such as run-ins with motorboats or monofilament fishing lines. Visitors can take 90-minute tours of the surgical facilities and tanks, including a multimedia presentation on sea turtle conservation. I find it truly a unique, sometimes moving, experience.
Adapted from a former bar and motel on Boot Key, this nonprofit is the world’s only state-certified hospital for marine turtles, rescuing and rehabilitating animals that are sick or injured, especially by traumatic contact with humans, such as run-ins with motorboats or monofilament fishing lines. Visitors can take 90-minute tours of the surgical facilities and tanks, including a multimedia presentation on sea turtle conservation. I find it truly a unique, sometimes moving, experience.
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