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September 2, 2019

9/2/2019

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2 September 2019
Hello, hello Turtle Trash Followers...it has been a while but we are making progress.   It took a while to come up for air especially with all those plastic bottles I had to swim through.   Good news is...we have light at the end of those bottles.  Yes, indeed.   Those plastic bottles are now part of the PLASTRON...the underside (aka belly) of the turtle.  Bet you didn't see that coming.  One thing I learned and am passing on to you is, the plastron is made up of nine "9" bones.

(Love Wikipedia at times...see below or go to:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_shell to read more.)

The plastron is the nearly flat part of the shell structure of a turtle, what one would call the belly or ventral surface of the shell. It also includes within its structure the anterior and posterior bridge struts and the bridge of the shell.[4][5] The plastron is made up of nine bones and the two epiplastra at the anterior border of the plastron are homologous to the clavicles of other tetrapods.[24] The rest of the plastral bones are homologous to the gastralia of other tetrapods.

There about 90...yes 90...bottles included in this part of the plastron with more to come.   THAT IS A LOT OF PLASTIC THAT OTHERS LEFT BEHIND ON OUR SHORELINES and in our GULF WATERS that our Longboat Key Turtle Watch volunteers picked up on their daily patrols.  THANK YOU LBKTW.    Ninety less bottles for sea turtles and other marine life to swallow.  

Well, that's it for today turtle trash followers.  Thanks for reading and stay tuned for tomorrow's progress on our sea turtle sculpture.

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melissa herron
9/5/2019 11:10:07 am

This is going to be amazing, Wendell! Thank you so much for your hard work cleaning all that trash & making it into something that will hopefully speak to many about leaving the beach better than we find it. Can't wait to see the progress! Hopefully some day we will not have to pick up others trash every day.....

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Roberto Jones link
10/18/2022 06:09:30 am

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Urbano Mata link
12/8/2023 10:29:27 am

Great reeading your blog post

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