Stranded 9/18/2013   Sweets is a hatchling Kemp’s ridley sea turtle. She was found by visitors on South Padre Island. She has no physical injuries but is slightly underweight and lethargic. She may have washed in with the high tides caused by Hurricane Ingrid. She currently resides in our ICU.   March Update: Sweets has […]

  Stranded 9/15/2013   Belinda is a juvenile Atlantic green sea turtle. She was accidentally hooked by a fisherman in South Bay. Luckily the fisherman did the right thing by reeling the sea turtle in and calling Sea Turtle, Inc. She had swallowed the hook but luckily our vet tech was able to remove it.

Stranded 9/7/2013 Baby was found by a Cameron County official in Isla Blanca Park. She was crawling around the dunes. Baby has no physical injuries and is already eating well. Pending a physical evaluation, she should be released by the end of September.   Released 9/18/2013

Stranded 8/4/2013 Heather was found wedged between the rocks of the Mansfield Jetties. She had a heavy load of barnacles on her carapace (top of shell) and head. Additionally, she had severe scraped on her plastron (bottom shell) and flippers from being wedged. This turtle had previously been tagged with a special microchip (found under

Stranded 5/12/2013 Johnny Football was found by visitors in front of Clayton’s Beach Bar. He is a juvenile Loggerhead and  it is very rare to get this size class of loggerhead on South Padre Island. He is missing a majority of both of his back flippers and a chunk of his shell. The injuries indicate

Stranded 6/20/2013 Lady Jack was found in the Laguna Madre by a group of fishermen. She had a large hook embedded in her lower beak. Her beak and face were heavily scarred and scabbed over from the hook rubbing against it. Her left front flipper was entangled in part of the rig attached to the

Stranded 6/16/2013   Ellie is an Atlantic green sea turtle. She was found by visitors at the mouth of South Bay. She was entangled in a discarded drift anchor. The line was wrapped around her front left flipper. She was bloated, lethargic and bleeding from the mouth. The flipper, unfortunately, had already lost blood flow

Stranded 4/17/2013 Clover was found floating at the mouth of the Arroyo Colorado. A good Samaritan with a boat pulled her out and called Sea Turtle, Inc. staff. Clover appears to have been struck by a boat and has a severe fracture in her carapace (top shell). Our Veterinarian placed zip tie ports with putty onto the shell. Ties are replaced

Stranded 3/29/2013 Becky is a post hatchling hawksbill sea turtle. She was found stranded just north of County Access 6 on South Padre Island. She was very skinny and had small, superficial wounds on her lateral (side) scutes. The turtle also had several small barnacles and tiny chunks missing from her back flippers. Becky shares

 Stranded 4/10/2013 Avae was found by an island visitor right in front of the Tiki Hotel. She had no wounds or abnormalities but her shell was covered in algae. The turtle had washed up in a patch of sargassum and was so small that she narrowly missed getting stepped on by beach-goers! Avae is currently