Hi there,
The life span of sea turtles is not known, so hopefully you don’t mind if it sometimes takes longer to add a new post. We have so much time …

Anyhow, Hawaiian Green Sea turtles seemt to grow very slowly in the wild, usually taking between 10 and 50 years to reach sexual maturity – 25 years in average.
Their long period of maturation helps to explain why it takes sea turtles so many years to recover from a substantial population decline. Male and female green sea turtles look virtually alike until they mature. Then, the two sexes are easy to tell apart: the males have long, thick tails, while the females have short, stubby ones. This is an example of sexual dimorphism, or, the ability to differentiate between the sexes of a particular species on the basis of external body characteristics.
More about ‘my girlfriends’ next time!
Good night, Hawaii Honu


Listen up out there, this is probably the last live post from Honu Paradise. Did you know that the Honu-Girl is leaving us already. It’s a shame, there are so many information we could not tell you yet. You have to come back for sure. All of us will be waiting for you!!!


Ha, ha, guess what? Those guys are way too fast for her, just look at the pictures, I’d say not bad, but there’s a lot of room for improvement, so keep trying.
woosh, look the dolphin’s already gone!
Let me tell you something, just
concentrate on us turtles. We make your life easy and lay around sleeping, not running or flying off your images. All right, just come back to Kukio!
Yawn! Oh, that was quite a cuddly weekend. We just hang around, let the tourists look at us, let them take some pictures and after all we were just waiting for that girl to come back.
….wow, wait, wait, wait! Do you believe her, that wild story about the lava flow and the boat trip that she indeed did twice today?











You’re there? Just don’t forget to breathe. You know, when we are active, we swim to the surface every few minutes in order to breathe as well. Did you really think we could survive without breathing. Nope, not possible. When we, of course, sleep or rest, which usually occurs at night, we adult sea turtle can remain under water for more than 2 hours without breathing. This is due to the fact, that we turtles are capable of containing higher concentrations of carbon dioxide in our blood than most other air-breathing animals, enabling us to use our oxygen very efficiently. Both muscles and blood are able to store oxygen in large quantities, allowing us to remain underwater for such long periods of time. Our juvenile turtles have not developed this ability yet as well as adults and must sleep afloat at the water’s surface.
Yupee, this is so beautiful, see here are some more corals and tons of limu for us to feed on. Come on, I invite you for dinner tonight …
Welcome to the last post in 2009. Nice of you, that you’re coming in today
oh, oh, right there in front of me. Follow me guys …
… you’re there? Oh great, look at all the food, mhh, sup, sip, slurp. Oh, that’s so good. Let’s get some more food, deeper down, common guys, dive, don’t wait, let’s get these algae!
What are you looking at?
there, sorry. So here you go, we are all friends and some of us will talk to you in this blog.


Well, sorry, ain’t not going to make it easy for you. My eye’s closed right now. Do you know why? There you go, more to learn about us first.
Anyhow, wish you a good night and hope you’ll be back soon. It’s fun talking to you and tell you all about us!