Sea Turtle Festival: May 17, 2008

LEXEY SWALL-BOBAY

Julia Van Fleet, 10, waits for her friend Shenai Malo, 10, as they walk through the Florida Panther exhibit in the Discovery Center during the Sea Turtle Festival on Saturday at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. About 2,000 people attended the event that was held so the public could say goodbye to the loggerhead turtle that has been at the Discovery Center since August 2005 after it was taken as a hatchling from Sanibel Island illegally, transported to Minnesota and eventually sent back to the Conservancy. The turtle will be released back into the wild in June.