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Sea Turtles and Mermaids!

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What a great Saturday morning! Mary Lou, Judy, Patrice, Caroline, Matt and even Carson joined me for the 5K walk/ run on the beach for the Tybee Turtle Trot. Then we all watched 4 rehabbed turtles be returned to the ocean. 2 Loggerheads and 2 green turtles swam out to the ocean after their stint at the Georgia Sea Turtle Center . The first loggerhead needed some help, he wasn’t so sure he wanted to leave the care of his wonderful humans, but with some encouragement, he did swim off. Our own Tina Gann who owns Caretta Cottage ( latin for sea turtle) was one of the people who carried the first turtle to the edge of the ocean. Tina had a pretty darn great day on Saturday! We think Carson was the littlest runner in the race, even if mom pushed him in the stroller! We hope to have a much larger group of Mermaids running/ walking next year so start training now to join us!

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5th Annual Tybee Turtle Trot on Saturday April 25th!

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We at Mermaid Cottages love our Tybee Sea Turtles!

 

 

Hopefully you’ll join us for not only the 5K walk/ run on the beach on Saturday and then stick around for the release of two rehabbed Sea Turtles from the Georgia Sea Turtle Center. You can still sign up – just be at the Marine Science Center by 7:30AM ( see details below!)

 

 

For details about the two turtles being released on the beach following the walk/run visit http://www.georgiaseaturtle.org/ and then go to the “our patients” page. Blizzard and Snowball’s stories are told here.

 

 

Who: Tybee Island Marine Science Center
What: Tybee Turtle Trot – 5k run/walk and release of two Loggerhead
Sea Turtles (Blizzard and Snowball) by the Georgia Sea Turtle Center
When: Saturday, April 25th, registration starts at 7 a.m., race starts
at 8 a.m., and sea turtle release is at 10 a.m.
Where: Registration is in front of the science center, 1509 Strand
Avenue on Tybee Island
Why: Fund raiser for the Tybee Sea Turtle Project and kick-off for the
2009 sea turtle nesting season 

Contact: Maria Procopio
Executive Director
Tybee Island Marine Science Center
PO Box 1879, 1509 Strand Avenue
Tybee Island, GA 13328
912-272-5008 Maria@TybeeMarineScience.org

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Guide Dog Puppy High Drama!!!

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Those of you who don’t believe or practise “social networking” need to read this story. And those of you who are addicted to Facebook, YouTube and Twitter- pat yourself on the back.

 

One of my Marriott friends, Sandy , who lives in Orlando and is now raising her 5th guide dog puppy called me this morning very worried. A guide dog puppy from the school we both work with- Guide Dog Foundation- was involved in a car accident and was lost in the streets of downtown Savannah. She asked me if I could call any of my pet rescue friends and I immediately called Lisa Scarborough, founder of Coastal Pet Rescue www.coastalpetrescue.org Lisa was already all over this- she not only had the story on her Facebook page, but had also “twittered”, had contacted WTOC who ran the story last night on TV and then posted the story on their website www.wtoc.com, who then contacted the folks at the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf Tournament in case they had seen the puppy ( who was supposedly been seen there) the connections just go on and on.

GOOD NEWS! The puppy has been found! Read the story below and thank you to all of you who twittered, facebooked and helped find this puppy!
“Missing guide dog found and re-united
(‘Wednesday, April 22, 2009 2:13 PM EST’, ”, true);
Apr 22, 2009 2:13 PM EDT

By Christy Hutchings – bio email
SAVANNAH, GA (WTOC) – The search for Ronin, a 14-week-old black lab and guide dog in training, is over. Ronin was re-united with the Guide Dog Foundation at the Christian Revival Center on 37th and Bull Streets thanks to Latoya Jones.
Latoya Jones found Ronin early Tuesday morning when the dog started following her. She took him home and Wednesday morning saw the story on WTOC. Wednesday afternoon she contacted the Guide Dog Foundation.
Ronin was lost when his caretaker was involved in an overnight with an accident on Montgomery Street and I-16. She was taken to the hospital, with non-life threatening injuries, Tuesday morning after being hit by a box truck while trying to cross the street. See: Accident sends pedestrian to hospital.
Witnesses say they saw Ronin running from the scene.”

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Walking with Ruby

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On Saturday I was one of 3,000 fellow walkers who showed up for Savannah’s first ever Susan G.Koman Breast Cancer walk. A glorious day in downtown Historic Savannah- blue skies, sunshine , no humidity and thousands of like minded people of all ages, sizes , shapes and physical condition. We began the race right in front of the beautiful Telfair Museum/ Jepson Center with Paula Deen kicking off the race. What a cheerful voice she has! When she yelled out Good Morning Savannah, we ALL yelled right back Good Morning! The walk took us through several of the Savannah Squares , weaving in and out of the streets, admiring the scenery and really proud of ourselves just to be all together and working to raise money so we can finally cure breast cancer in our life times.
Equally as inspiring was meeting Ruby. As a fan of several reality TV shows, I’d seen this great show last year and was THRILLED to literally look over to my left before the race began and there stood Ruby!!! Ruby is a Savannah woman who is on a huge weight loss journey- she’s lost over half her body weight, but in the past year of the show, has lost over 100 pounds. Yesterday the My Style TV crew was there to film this year’s season opener with Ruby walking her 1st ever 5K event. Ruby is beautiful, both inside and out and was so delighted that so many people recognized her and were coming over to meet her. She gave us all hugs, thanked us for all our good words and thoughts. She was surrounded by a number of women of all shapes and sizes there to also walk their first 5K and support ridding the world of Breast Cancer. After I finished the walk, I stayed around to be part of the crowd cheering Ruby on when she walked over the finish line. The roar was tremendous!! Visit her website to learn more about Ruby and her journey and let’s keep supporting our local friends!

 

 

I walked yesterday to honor my Mom who has now passed her 5 year mark as a Breast Cancer survivor and I walked to keep the research moving forward so we never have to keep dealing with this disease. Thank you to all of you who were out there walking and those of you who were supporting us all!

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