One thing that is a religious event for us is our Monday night trips to Snapper to feed the turtles. Brayton has a deep love and passion for turtles and working with them and this is a great way to be involved! I really love them too, and they always give us a reason to smile!
One of the turtles there is named Olivia. She washed into the beach here and was missing her two right fins. She is a forever resident! She is a princess and she knows it! She loves to play 'hard to get' but is such a cool turtle! This is Olivia. She is an Olive Ridley turtle (not common to St Kitts)
Some of the other turtles at SNAPPER are just there until they are big enough to be tagged and released or until they are ready and able to be released. One of those turtles is Brimmie. He is a Hawksbill Turtle and he is not a fan of human (which is good!) but he knows we feed him so he cooperates! The other turtle that lives with Brimmie is Frodo. Frodo is a green sea turtle(common to St Kitts) and he like kid! When you walk to his tank he begs for attention and loves to entertain! We all have a special liking for him!
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| This is Brimmie - the Hawsbill turtle. He is 1/2 of a centimeter away from releasable! |
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| Brimmie again |
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| Brimmie again |
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| Frodo on the left - Brimmie on the right |
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| Frodo - the Green sea turtle |
Aside from the 'big' turtles, there are a variety of hatchlings there as well that were either: not ready to be released, or needed some rehabilitation before being released. Right now there are 5 babies there - here are some pictures:
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| One of the little tiny babies! They are smaller than the palm of your hand! They are also hawksbill! |
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| floating in some 'sargasm' (aka seaweed) |
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