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North Pinellas

Honeymoon Island Sunset Photos – Feb. 24, 2016

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Honeymoon Island State Park is a park in Dunedin, Florida with a quiet peaceful atmosphere.  It is a sea shell and sand dollar hunters dream.  There is an abundance of land based creatures who inhabit the island, and share it with the island’s many visitors.  The park asks that when you are driving the roads of the island that you travel within the posted speed limit.  This is not only for the safety of the visitors and the animals who may share the road with you on any given day, but it is also so that the roads will last longer.  Maintain the posted speed limits when traveling in the park.

Reptiles

Clearwater’s Cold Stunned Sea Turtles

          A Sea Turtle is an air breathing reptile who lives and thrives in the Gulf of Mexico, not to mention the waters all over the world.   The turtle is a large shelled creature who uses it’s shell as protection for its soft body.  The shell is made up of many bones covered with horny scales, also known as scoots.  They have no teeth, but very strong jaws.  There are seven species of endangered sea turtles, the green turtle, hawksbill, leatherback, loggerhead, olive ridley, Kemp’s ridley, and flatback.  The majority of these species of sea turtle are found in the waters off Florida.  Only the olive ridley and flatback are not. Sea turtles grow very slowly, and live for decades.

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