Join us after hours for a lecture series featuring local scientists, conservationists, and photographers with brews!
Loggerhead Marinelife Center’s Guided Tour allows visitors to get a guided experience of our outdoor sea turtle hospital and meet our patients.
You can support Loggerhead Marinelife Center by “adopting” a sea turtle patient starting at just $40. Your adoption directly benefits the continued care and treatment of our sick and injured sea turtles.
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Loggerhead Marinelife Center's Unwrap the Wave Initiative allows for students and community members to get into the "spirit" of conservation by collecting their candy wrappers from Halloween and recycling them.
We offer four society levels, including the Gordon Gray Circle and the Blue Friends Society. Explore all your options.
Loggerhead Marinelife Center offers exciting and rewarding career opportunities and internships.
Juvenile Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) (CM26-196)
Jacaranda is a juvenile green sea turtle found in Tequesta with a hook in their tongue and mild FP. The hook was removed. Jacaranda’s treatments include wound care, antibiotics and TPN since they are not eating.
Arrival
June 9, 2026
Stranding
Tequesta, FL
Initial
Hook injestion, FP
Admission
5.5 kg. / 12 lbs.
Current
5.5 kg. / 12 lbs.
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