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Last Stand sincerely thanks its friends and
members who made our August 19 Summer Fun(d)-raiser at the
Turtle Kraals Museum a success. |
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About 30 members and friends of
Last Stand spent
Thursday evening at Turtle Kraals Museum in Key West, enjoying
the museum displays, learning about turtles, socializing and
enjoying great food and drink. |
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Tom Wilmers, biologist with US
Fish & Wildlife Service, who has monitored turtles in the Key
West National Wildlife Refuge for almost two decades, and for
whom these creatures are a passion, gave an informative slide
presentation on the state of turtle populations in the Keys...
both good and bad news. |
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The
evening also featured a silent auction for a boat trip with
Captain Tina Brown, Museum Director, when she takes the
recently-rescued loggerhead baby turtles (news story
here) out to
release them into nature. The babies are shown at left. |
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We sincerely thank Tina and the
Turtle Kraals Museum for hosting the event, and our friend Tom
Wilmers for the "turtle talk" and for his years of dedication to
these critters.
Thanks also to Key West writer
Theresa Foley, who was on hand to sign her book Cetacia.
She generously shared a portion of her book sales with
Last Stand. Theresa's
website is
here.
We also especially thank Turtle
Kraals Restaurant and Bar for the very yummy munchies!
Their website is
here.
Please patronize them as well as the Museum. |
