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Georgia Sea Turtle Center
A Plethora of Ways to Learn About Sea Turtles!

Daily Programs: The Georgia Sea Turtle Center offers Daily Educational Programs on the hour. Find out the Amazing Adaptations sea turtles have developed to be able to survive in the ocean! Learn the differences between Turtles, Terrapins and Tortoises! See how and what our sea turtle patients eat! These are just a few of the programs we offer! Please check out our website to see our Daily Program Schedule and short description of each program.

Special in December: Santa Claus makes a special visit at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center! Children can come meet Santa and explore the many facets of life as an endangered sea turtle. Santa will appear at 1:30pm, 3:30pm and 5:30pm. Kids will also be able to make their very own Recycled Sea Turtle Art Ornament at the Center during the entire month of December!!

Reminders: Want to see the treatment room from the OTHER side of the viewing window? Would you like to step off the rehab pavilion walkway into the hospital? Well now’s your chance…the Georgia Sea Turtle Center offers Behind-the-Scenes Tours! Tours are conducted on Monday mornings at 9am. Advanced reservations are required and space is limited! Cost is $20 for adults, $10 for children and includes general admission. Children must be at least 10 years old to participate.

Birthday parties: Happy 5th Birthday to Georgia Waters! The Georgia Sea Turtle Center proudly hosted our first birthday party on November 10th for Georgia, her friends and her family! Looking for a way to celebrate your child’s birthday? Bring them to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center! We offer 3 birthday packages and a variety of themes to choose from! It’s a great way to celebrate a birthday AND help sea turtles! Cost varies by package and includes general admission and reservations are required.

Turtle Tales: Turtles Tales is moving to Saturdays in December! We invite children of all ages to attend this program for a turtle-inspired story and craft!

School Programs: The Georgia Sea Turtle Center hosted approximately 800 students during the month of November! This brings our grand total, since September, to 1360 students!!!

*For more information about the Georgia Sea Turtle Center and our programs, please visit our website at georgiaseaturtlecenter.org or call 912-635-4444. Reservations can be made over the phone. A credit card is required for all reservations.
Who’s Being Treated the Georgia Sea Turtle Center?
Griffin is our newest sea turtle patient here at the center. He originally stranded off Daytona beach and was taken to the Volusia County Marine Science Center. He is unable to dive and can not eat on his own. After several weeks, the staff there decided that they would like to transfer him here to see if new eyes could help find the mystery problem. We recieved him, and after some initial xrays found he has a lot of gas in his GI tract, and we are treating him for a bacterial infection. We are also tube feeding him twice a day until he begins eating again on his own.

Dylan is doing quite well, he has started eating live pray regularly. However, because he is an unexperienced migrator and the waters off of our coast are rapidly getting cold we have decided to release him early next year once the waters again warm up. We want him to have lots of time to enjoy our coast before he has to migrate. We will equip him with a satellite transmitter so that we will be able to track him after release.

Sage, our green hatchling that was affected by red tide, is hanging in there and has started to dive and eat much better! He is still pretty thin so we are going to hang on to him until he is ready to go!

Number 11, whose name will be revealed once he is moved to the new exhibit tank in the gallery, can be seen at the end of the pavilion walkway. We have started to do enrichment with him the same way we do with our larger sea turtles. He gets a small amount of fish frozen into an icecube. He may soon be getting a new name as well as taking his first trip to a new home elsewhere at the center.

Amelia, our other loggerhead hatching that was affected by red tide is also growing by leaps and bounds. She is also recieving icecubes for enrichment. She, however, is being prepared for release! We are currently trying to find a way to get her to the gulf stream, which is turning out to be quite a challenge! Once we have secured some first class transportation we will be able to take her home!

And we say a happy good-bye to Bev who was successfully released on November 18th! She came to the center in August unable to open her mouth very well. After daily physical therapy sessions with her, she was finally able to open her mouth normally and deemed releasable. She was equipped with a satellite transmitter, and can bet tracked online! Visit the website at www.georgiaseaturtlecenter.org for more information.
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