As members of the Volunteer Sea Protection program on Ocean Isle Beach, N.C. –

As a group, we made the journey to Hampstead, N.C. to the Sea Turtle Rescue Hospital.

Thirty to thirty-five members made the almost two-hour drive –

We were given the regular tour and because our group supports the hospital –

we were given a behind-the-scenes tour where we could not take any pictures.

At that time they had 89 Sea Turtles that had been recused and transported to the hospital/

There are 500 volunteers that work for the hospital –

350 who walk the beaches and 150 who actually work at the hospital.

This is a display of an actual Sea Turtle nest – so the public can see how the eggs are laid and covered back up by the adult Sea Turtle.

Above is a breakdown of garbage in the Oceans that the Turtles will eat as they swim.

Volunteers work with some of the Sea Turtles until they are well enough to be released back into the ocean.

They take them 40 or 50 miles out to release them.

THIS IS LENNIE – blind and a permanent resident of the hospital with a blunt force injury.

Vats and tubs containing various sizes of Sea Turtles –

This is all done with grants – fundraisers and gifts –

$100,000.00 a year to buy pallets of SALT for the water so they can survive.

Our volunteer group on OCEAN ISLE BEACH we have almost between 150 and 200 volunteers.

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VISIT TO THE SEA TURTLE HOSPITAL.