🐢 NOAA Fisheries Service Galveston Laboratory

Notes regarding time

Reservations needed, as free tours fill up months in advance.

Description

  The NOAA sea turtle research facility is situated on the campus' southwest corner, along with the Texas Mammal Stranding Network. 

• Note:  Please call in advance to reserve your tour spot!   
• Visitors explore the facility through Thursday tours...schedule by calling the laboratory. 
• Tours of the sea turtle facility meet in the main part of campus, followed by a short walk to the facility. 
• These tours also fill up quickly...make a reservation for a tour date several months in advance.
• The free tours of the sea turtle facility are led by volunteers with backgrounds in fields related to marine biology or turtles. 
• Tours are also conducted based on the availability of the volunteers. 
• Children must be at least six years old to tour the sea turtle building - this is for safety reasons.  
• Guests are allowed to visit the facility as often as they like as long they schedule a tour. 
• Visitors are allowed to bring their cameras and take photographs of the sea turtles. 
• Holding a sea turtle, however, is not allowed; the turtles can bite, rather effectively too.
• Visitors are advised not to feed the turtles, not to stick their fingers into tanks, not to manipulate/lure the turtles. 

Who

Anyone Ages 6 and up.  

Cost

Free

How

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