Nesting Loggerhead Sea Turtle at Sunrise
September 8, 2021 - Rich and I made a late August visit over to the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge and encountered a nesting Loggerhead sea turtle.... Read more
Loggerhead Sea Turtle
2019: Photographic Year in Review
December 31, 2019 - ...Reflecting on 2019 photography...Snowy Plover chicks, Least Tern nesting, Burrowing Owls, Lake Apopka, and turtle hatchling emergence! Read more
Last Turtle Walk of 2019
September 20, 2019 - ...Our last turtle walk of 2019 yielded lots of hatchling tracks, including those of a Loggerhead hatchling who made his way home to the sea Read more
2000 Posts on catandturtle.net!
August 15, 2019 - ...Wow. This is my 2000th post on catandturtle.net! I started blogging regularly in 2008(ish) to document my cats, our Garden Craze, and the birds in my backyard. Little did I know how much I would come to love nature photography. To celebrate my 2000th post, I picked 12 of my favorite posts from over the […] Read more
Loggerhead Sea Turtle Nesting Mother and Hatchlings
August 11, 2019 - Loggerhead Sea Turtle Returning to Ocean after Nesting Our last turtle of the morning was another Loggerhead hatchling.... Loggerhead Sea Turtle Hatchling... Read more
Loggerhead Turtle Hatchling Emergence!
August 5, 2019 - Loggerhead Sea Turtle Hatchling It's against the law to touch the tiny turtles.... Loggerhead Sea Turtle Hatchling The incubation time for turtle eggs is around two months.... Loggerhead Sea Turtle Hatchling I can only image how vast the giant ocean must seem to the tiny turtle.... Read more
Independence Day Turtle Walk
August 2, 2019 - ...Early morning Independence Day beach walk yielded Loggerhead hatchlings and a nesting Green Sea turtle mother. Plus a great sunrise! Read more
First of Summer Turtle!
June 30, 2018 - This was a Loggerhead sea turtle, the first adult we've seen at Archie Carr.... Read more
Happy World Turtle Day 2017!
May 23, 2017 - Loggerhead Sea Turtle Regular readers of my blog will know that Rich is a turtle enthusiast.... Loggerhead Sea Turtle Laying Eggs Go to the Turtle Museum!... Baby Loggerhead Sea Turtle Hopefully we've inspired you to get out and enjoy some turtles.... Read more
Return to the Sea – Loggerhead Sea Turtle Hatchlings!!
July 12, 2015 - We interrupt the previously scheduled blog post to bring breaking news from the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge, where <gasp> Rich joined me for sunrise this morning and <woo hoo!> we saw a pair of hatchling Loggerhead Sea Turtles make their return to the sea!!... When I was a kid, my cousins…... Read more
Turtle Walk 2015
June 14, 2015 - So Rich was in seventh heaven when we saw a Loggerhead Sea Turtle laying eggs.... Read more
The Incredible Nesting Sea Turtle
June 10, 2012 - ...For years I’ve been telling Rich about going on turtle walks when I was little. My grandparents lived really close to Loggerhead Park, a turtle rehabilitation center. It was right across the street from the beach. The center occasionally sponsored walks at night, allowing people to see the adult turtles as they come to the […] Read more
Happy World Turtle Day
May 23, 2012 - ...Rich wishes everyone a Happy World Turtle Day! If you didn’t know, World Turtle Day is an annual event to protect turtles and tortoises around the world. This year Rich is helping to protect sea turtles by being an “adoptor” of a Hawksbill Sea Turtle. Here are some things you can do to help protect […] Read more
Turtles! at Loggerhead Park
October 24, 2009 - ...Dyeyo, Rich, and I visited Grandpa Dave in Juno Beach today. We couldn’t go so close to the Turtle Museum (officially named Loggerhead Park) without letting Rich get his turtle fix. Read more
Georgia Aquarium trip
August 27, 2008 - Of course we had to check out the loggerhead sea turtle first.... Read more
A trip to the Turtle Museum for Rich
August 11, 2007 - ...When I was a kid visiting my grandparents in Juno Beach, we’d often go over to Loggerhead Park, the “Turtle Museum” across the street from my grandparents’ condo. So when I married a turtle freak, I told him all about the museum. We finally got to visit and Rich had a great time looking at […] Read more