Tour de Turtles

A Sea Turtle Migration Marathon

Sea Turtle Conservancy (STC) is excited to announce the 7th annual Tour de Turtles Migration Marathon.

Tour de Turtles will follow more than a dozen individual sea turtles, using satellite-tracking technology, as they leave their respective nesting sites and compete in a mock race to complete a ‘turtle’ marathon.  The Tour de Turtles will be won by the turtle that swims the furthest distance in three months!

Visit the Tour de Turtles website to be part of the action! You can meet the turtles competing in the marathon, track each turtle’s progress, and learn about obstacles facing the turtles during their long migratory journeys.  There are also lots of fun educational resources for kids and teachers.

Follow the Turtle Hospital’s very own loggerhead sea turtle that is participating in this migration.  Pine Tyme is an 80-pound loggerhead sea turtle who was found near Big Pine Key and was nursed back to health by the Turtle Hospital.  Check out his marathon migration map, where you can follow along as I swim to raise awareness about the threat of Boat Strikes to sea turtles.

Baby sea turtle tracks on Sombrero Beach July 10, 2014.