Before we opened today someone called in to say that there was a Kemp's Ridley crossing Padre Blvd. Well if you're familiar with the island you know that Padre is the main street that goes down the island and if you're familiar with sea turtles you know there's no way that a sea turtle that is so awkward on land would waddle past the beach all the way to the road. So, Lucy went out to pick up the little land turtle whose species we are still debating. It kind of looks like a red-earred slider, but the red stripe doesn't quite look bright enough. Anyway, point being - not a sea turtle. However it's still fun to have new turtles brought in so I scrubbed him down to remove the algae from his shell and we snapped some pictures.
I spent a chunk of my day working on updates for the website with Adrienne and Jeff, we needed to add pictures for the online giftshop and update the staff page. So we sent off all of the updates and hopefully everything will be fixed up soon.
This afternoon we had our last tank delivered! This one is bigger than the new tank Merry Christmas is now in and they will work on bolting it together tomorrow. If everything goes well the plumbing will be finished up soon so we will be able to paint them, fill them and build up the deck around them. I don't really have much to do with the new tanks, that's mostly Tom's job, but I'm hopeing that I'll see the finished product by the end of my summer here.
More pictures from Adrienne from when we cleaned Fred's tank, the one of his face is a little dark, but he's just so darn precious.
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