Wild Delmarva

Nature can be brutal and this Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle is a recent victim of perhaps an illness combined with last week’s nor’easter. This little guy was found washed ashore under a cottage in Bethany Beach, Delaware and was rescued by Suzanne Thurman of the MERR Institute in Lewes. On Wednesday the turtle was transported to the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland where it will hopefully be nursed back to health and eventually released back into the Atlantic Ocean. Kemp’s Ridley sea turtles are a critically endangered species and they are the smallest and rarest sea turtle. Hopefully I will be able to report a successful ending for story.

Photograph by Kevin Fleming

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