Sea Turtle Hospital

This is one very sick green sea turtle. It has had surgery and hopefully will make a full recovery.





This one is now healthy and being fattened up for release.

Sea Turtle Hospital - Green Sea Turtles

How gorgeous are these little hospital patients.
Recently had a tour of a rescue organisation and hospital dedicated to seabirds and turtles. How amazing their work is. Apparently it is difficult to release these babies once they are well because they are so small and seem so helpless. Statistically only 1 in 1000 hatchlings make it to adulthood. Then it takes 30 years of growing before the female is old enough to lay her eggs. The odds are not good.

A lot of the rescued patients are there because of human interference. Pelicans and seagulls are often hooked and tangled with fishing line/hooks. The sea turtles may be damaged by propellers or mistake a floating plastic bag for jellyfish, their favourite food. Many die because of the plastic bags. Unless the bags are caught in the throat or at the other end the ability to save them is minimal.

THROW YOUR RUBBISH IN THE BIN, PLEASE.

Fat Clothes

Check this out! Our clothes from camping on an old Hills hoist and torrential rain = one very sad clothes line.

Weeding with Geese

When I work out in the garden I am never alone. I have a pair of geese who follow me and chomp on the uprooted weeds I throw their way. Even though it is the weeds they seek, I feel as if they are there for me. I am such an innocent.

Bruce has started challenging the members of the human family so I am assuming that Fanny is thinking of laying again, if she isn't already. I haven't found any nests but she is good at hiding them.

Gum Tree Blossoms

Neanderthal Dog

Our Roger the Dodger has a problem. He drags his front paws, effectively leaving his knuckles raw if he walks on hard surfaces such as cement or gravel. Poor knuckle dragging boofhead. In the grassy paddocks or on the sand at the beach he has no problem.

I have found the solution...hopefully. A local saddler makes leather shoes for dogs. Who would have thunk eh? Apparently sheep dogs that work in country with a lot of burrs wear them and the guide dogs who have to walk on the hot cement/roads during their working hours need them.

We have been for one walk in them and I must have re-booted him five times. After that I gave up. He eventually kept his right foot booted but the left one kept coming off. I don't know if it is the way he walks or it is the shoe. We have some experimenting to do yet.

He took some pretty high, dressage type steps when he first had them on but once he knew he was going for a walk he didn't give a toss.

Beach Photography II