Hello darlings, you may call me Clarissa Cobblecrumb. My dear friends at Gideon’s Bakehouse carefully selected me to represent them in this year’s Tour de Turtles. While I swim, I’ll be raising awareness about a super spooky threat to sea turtles-- coastal armoring. As I’m sure you already know, sea turtles like me come back to the same beach year after year to nest, and I’ve noticed my beach has started to look different lately. Just recently, I came ashore to nest and ran into a concrete monstrosity that never used to be there! STC told me that coastal areas are considered prime real estate and many of the world’s beaches are being heavily developed. Coastal property owners often build armoring structures along beaches such as vertical seawalls, like the one I ran into, to help protect their land from erosion. How dare they! Sea walls can take many forms and be constructed from wood, steel, concrete and even hundred-ton bags of sand known as geotube armoring. I’ll need your help during the race to raise awareness about this issue facing Florida’s beaches and sea turtles. Join me in this endeavor and there might even be some cookies at the finish line if we persevere! 

I was named by my Sponsor, Gideon's Bakehouse. Check out my marathon migration map, where you can follow along as I swim to raise awareness about the threat of Coastal Armoring to sea turtles. Please help me raise awareness about my cause by supporting me!

Learn more about loggerhead sea turtles.