Hooked on Africa is proud to again be associated with another successful release of rehabilitated turtles into the wild. This week's release even included a young turtle "tripod" with only 3 flippers. It's been such a pleasure being involved with the release of these rehabilitated turtles over the past few years and the team [...]
This week Hooked on Africa was once again in conjunction with the Two Oceans Aquarium involved in releasing rehabilitated turtles back into the ocean. The 2 ladies that dedicate all their time to rehabilitate [...]
We recevie regular turtle progress updates from the Two Ocean's Aquarium in Cape Town. The most fulfilling part of rescuing and rehabilitating these sea turtles is, of course, their release back into the ocean when they are fully recovered. Read more about it here. [...]
Hooked on Africa Fishing Charters together with Two Oceans Aquarium working together on another successful release of rehabilitated turtles back into the wild.
" Hi Everybody Just a quick update on our traveling turtles. Yoshi is still on her way DOWN the coast of Namibia and about 194 kilometers NW of Walvisbay! She is 23 kilometers west of where she was at the end of February. She has traveled more than 6600 kilometers, with a daily average now [...]
"12 May 2018 Yoshi appears to be enjoying her time along the Angolan coast and has travelled about 200km north since the previous update. This is a straight line distance - she has been zig-zagging a lot along the way. Last week she was approximately 30 kilometres offshore in warm 28°C deep water, but she [...]
Well, good day all! January’s come, February’s gone and March/ April and May are ahead of us, traditionally these 3 months are PRIME TUNA TIME. If the reports are correct, very good tuna are on the bank off Namibia and good catches of big Longfin Tuna 300 nm North of here. We’ve been getting [...]
18 February 2018 Hi everybody – herewith the latest Yoshi update. Yoshi has been back in the ocean now for 64 days, and she is making great progress up the West Coast. She has traveled 1860 kilometres already. She is currently about 130 km offshore from the Hardap region of Namibia. She is actually in [...]
A few weeks ago, we were asked by the Two Oceans Aquarium if we could assist them in releasing Yoshi, the big turtle that has been living at the aquarium for the past few years. After Yoshi was prepped for the big day, we took the team out to sea and found the perfect [...]
Yesterday we released another Hawksbill Turtle for Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town.
