Wed 13 Jun 2012
Update on Sir Thomas Turtleton
Posted by micho under Living in CaymanComments Off on Update on Sir Thomas Turtleton
On May 28th, the Turtle farm released a 60 year old Turtle. I made a post about it on June 2nd (see below).
Well, I am pleased to say that Sir Thomas Turtleton is alive and well and … swimming like mad! In fact, as of just over a week back in the wild, this large fellow has swam and impressive 372km (+-230 miles for the non-metrically inclined) and is now off the coast of Nicaragua. That distance sure puts my Flowers Sea Swim to great shame! Anyway, not bad at all for a turtle who spent 1/2 his life in captivity.
The best is that you can follow him online, since if you remember from my original post, he has a GPS tracker attached to his back. Click on the link below to see where he is now:
http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?tag_id=112229&full=1&lang
On a similar note, someone made a cute video of the release. In fact they made a “movie trailer” of the event. This video will definitely put a smile on your face.