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JUPITER CRUISES – CRITTERS TO CRUISE BY

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3/1/2022

Jupiter Cruises

Sea Turtles – If they Could Talk, They might Have a Boston Accent

a turtle swimming under water

Swift at sea but lumbering on land, these streamlined reptiles cross oceans as easily as they glide through clear Jupiter Inlet waterways.

Hitchhiking onto the Gulf Stream, adult sea turtles often end up as far north as Cape Cod in their migratory travels.

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Nesting season started March 1, so female loggerhead, green and leatherback sea turtles will be visiting Jupiter beaches to lay their eggs.

Near DuBois Park is a popular spot to check out sea turtles. Your Jupiter Cruises guide will tell you all about it.

Here some sea turtle facts:

  • Turtles lay about 100-125 whitish yellow eggs, about the size ping pong balls, in nests about three feet deep. Hatchlings emerge in about 2 months.
  • Turtle eggs that don’t hatch help the environment. Turtles lay their eggs near dunes, which protect the shoreline. Unhatched eggs provide nutrients for the dunes to grow.
  • Why are balloons not allowed in DuBois Park? Sea turtles love to munch on jellyfish. A deflated ballon floating on top of the ocean looks like a jellyfish.

Check out Loggerhead Marinelife Center for a close look at sea turtles.

Birds! Birds! Birds! 

a bird standing in front of a body of water

Above the Water. On the water. In the water.

There’s no shortage of colorful, quirky and chanting birds. Diving, swooping and soaring — they have a blast along Jupiter Inlet waterways.

Football-shaped roseate spoonbills gather in the shallows, their pinkish, long-legged bodies standing out from the rest of the bird crowd. Great blue herons, standing tall like they own the place, are silent flyers that sweep across the sky. Anhingas, speading their wings to dry, pose like ice dancers. And in the water, cormorants unleash their necks out straight as they spear fish.

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Here’s a few birds facts for your Jupiter cruises tour.

  • A pelican’s stretchy beak pouch can hold  up to 3 gallons of water – 3 times more than its stomach can hold.
  • Graceful as ballerinas, Great Blue Herons fly up to 30 miles per hour and grow up to 6 feet tall.  Hollow-boned with a six-foot-wide wing span, they weigh only about 7 pounds.
  • Divers of the deep, cormorants use their webbed feet as engines and their wings as rudders as they dive up to 150 feet seeking food.
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