@mmm21980: We saved a baby sea turtle!! 🐢 Found him 0.1 miles from the beach headed in the wrong direction. He crawled up the sand dunes, down into the parking lot, across A1A (beachfront avenue) and down our street. This little guy is a fighter! So grateful we saved him ❤️❤️🐢 #seaturtle #turtle #rescue #florida #ocean
We checked with local wildlife officials and the Sea Turtle Conservancy, and they confirmed that what we did was appropriate. FWC encourages people to move hatchlings back to the ocean if they’re in immediate danger. Baby sea turtles have only about a 1 in 1,000 chance of reaching adulthood, but this little guy had virtually no chance where we found him - in the road, heading away from the ocean.
2026-08-02 22:39:13
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3kbs0 :
He’s like right on dude’s it’s that way.🤣
2026-08-04 00:22:36
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𝒞𝑜𝒻𝒻𝑒𝑒 𝒞𝓇𝑒𝓍𝓂𝑒𝓇 :
These comments clearly KNOW NOTHING about sea turtles. If you see a SEA turtle going the opposite direction of the ocean, you’re supposed to take it to the beach sand and let it have its chance. Make sure it reaches the water. The turtle clearly has good muscles, look at him waving his fins around. He’s very energetic and HEALTHY and looks to be OK. What they did is fine, he made it to the water. He was not doomed. Yall pouring trash into the ocean is what KILLS Sea Turtles. Not the gentle handling from a good bystander.
2026-08-03 00:14:49
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dtclippedyou :
Man, my boy Franklin the only turtle out here getting it out the mud
2026-08-04 02:58:39
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krista but remember Jesus 👀 :
your not supposed to put him in the ocean hes to climb over the sand to the ocean
2026-08-04 04:43:45
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🪬🧿 Tori 🧿🪬 :
99% chance he didn’t crawl there.. a bird probably picked him up and dropped him. I work in roofing and found one on the roof of a 9 story condo building. So no way in hell he climbed up there 😁
2026-08-02 01:32:09
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️ 𝙺𝚊𝚒𝚕𝚎𝚢 :
The way he progressively flapped his arms more as he heard the waves
2026-08-04 04:55:44
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bettina_windy :
He is gonna tell his friends that he flew here 😂
2026-08-04 05:34:47
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Richard Head248 :
I wish I could hear the stories animals tell their friends when humans save them. This guy was like “I was flying!!!!”
2026-08-02 13:40:30
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Court_B93 :
His little legs paddling like crazy once you got to the beach 🥹
2026-08-04 05:17:56
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DaniB_Unbothered :
The song is so appropriate
2026-08-03 00:00:09
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DollarEatz :
To the beach
2026-08-03 02:13:33
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🥓🇺🇸 Robert1776 ❌ :
he will remember you for the next 700 years
2026-08-03 17:09:06
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Marla Thompson-Maurer :
Flying back to the beach and ocean ❣️
2026-08-03 18:24:58
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BBD :
Flip those flappers 🥰
2026-08-04 05:21:02
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Aliyah Ava :
He ain’t got nothing on Franklin
2026-08-04 01:22:17
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southern_chickk1995 :
man all I see is all Franklins buddies getting help while he had to do boot camp!! but it's ok Franklin you will be a lot stronger 💪
2026-08-03 13:15:25
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CtheWorld :
For all the people telling me about “imprinting” on the sand. Here’s what the Sea Turtle Conservancy said…many hatchlings don’t imprint on the sand for a number of reasons. Adult turtles with disrupted magnetic maps/orientation adapt quite well and use other navigational cues. They also follow other nesting mothers and usually nest close by to the original beach 20-30 years later. Imprinting is good but not completely necessary. It’s not a death sentence as they find alternative beaches to nest.
2026-08-03 12:04:06
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MomC :
Oh my gosh, that’s a logger head. One of the biggest species of sea turtles that’s awesome. Thank you so much for doing that.
2026-08-03 14:56:44
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Casey Marie 💙 :
Bro chill..not everyone is a turtle specialist.. she went out of her way to give him more of a chance than being so far away! Thanks for doing this❤️❤️
2026-08-02 22:51:16
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Smilesatstrangers :
So y’all are saying they should’ve left it in the road to be squished. 🤦♀️y’all are a trip.
2026-08-02 18:05:57
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fee2.o :
Wait till he tries convincing his friends he flew to the ocean
2026-08-02 00:58:25
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