A Morning Beach-Side Turtle Rescue

Occurred on June 28, 2021 / Jupiter, Florida, USA

: "I’m a mural artist who lives in Columbus Ohio and was on vacation with my wife Danielle who is a 2nd grade teacher. My mom lives in Jupiter Florida so we come to visit her in the Summers. We were not able to last year because my wife was battling breast cancer and Covid happened. We were thrilled to be able to come down for a couple weeks. We love to go to loggerhead and Carlin Park. We started a new tradition of getting coffee and donuts at Jupiter donuts when they open at 6 and go watch the sunrise at Carlin Park. When we got there my wife noticed the shape of something down by the water and since so many fish had been washing up dead, we thought the worst. You know the rest. Loggerheads are surprisingly heavy, but she wasn’t too big to budge. It looked like she was coming up to lay eggs in the early morning darkness and got caught by a strange wave and a deep rut and had been trying to right herself for some time and was spent. It was a wonderful moment for all three of us. My wife is in remission after a long year of struggling, and this chance encounter reminded her of second chances and how thankful she is for the friends and family who have given her a “boost” and how we all need help sometimes and that’s okay."