Tiny turtle relocated after being found lost, exhausted on Oak Island beach
OAK ISLAND, NC (WWAY) — A sunrise walk on the beach turned into a turtle rescue Tuesday morning.
Mary Rodriguez says she noticed tiny turtle tracks in the sand that led her to a two-inch-long turtle.
She contacted the Oak Island Turtle Protection hotline and learned the turtle wasn’t a sea turtle, but a Diamondback turtle who was lost and exhausted.
(Photo: Mary Frances Barnes Rodriguez)
Rodriguez says she learned land turtles can retract their head into their shell (sea turtles can not) and they have little legs/feet while sea turtles have flippers.
Pictures and measurements were taken of the tiny turtle before it was released into a more suitable environment.
