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Carol Wood of Marco Island holds up a scute from an Atlantic hawksbill sea turtle shell. This brightly colored covering of the turtle's carapace was used for centuries to make "tortoise-shell" jewelry, a practice now outlawed in the United States.
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This picture of a 2-inch long loggerhead hatchling shows it dashing from its nest on Marco Island to the Gulf of Mexico where it will be taken by the Gulf Stream to grow and mature in the Sargasso Sea.
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Debbie Roddy, president of Friends of Tigertail, gives Russ Colombo some tips on what to watch for in the turtle presentation. Colombo admits he is a "turtle virgin" knowing little or nothing about the loggerheads that nest on Marco Island.
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Mary Nelson, the "Turtle Lady" of Marco Island, presents slides and a video on the life of the loggerhead turtles at last Wednesday's Friends of Tigertail lecture series.
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