Eliza Ann the loggerhead wins Tour de Turtles this year
It may not have been the fastest race in history, but Anna Maria Island won the marathon with loggerhead Eliza Ann.
The turtle was named Eliza Ann for the Sea Turtle Conservancy event, Tour de Turtles, which ended Nov. 1. The Waterline Resort and Marina, in Holmes Beach, featuring Eliza Ann�s Coastal Kitchen restaurant, sponsored AMITW in the event.
As part of the tour, 20 sea turtles were tagged and released from beaches in Costa Rica, Panama, Nevis and Florida. The turtles then competed in a �marathon,� a competition for which turtle swims the most miles during the three-month �race.�
Eliza Ann traveled 1,693 miles to win first place in the marathon, which tracked distance covered through Nov. 1 by the tagged sea turtles. The runner-up, a loggerhead named Cruz, traveled 1,583 miles after it was tagged July 29 near the Disney Vero Beach Resort, south of the Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge in Melbourne Beach.
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