Happy Holidays from Turtle Treasures!

Happy Holidays from Turtle Treasures!
Wishing you every happiness this Holiday Season and prosperity in the New Year. Thank you for being our wonderful customer. We look forward to continuing our relationship in the coming year. In the new year look forward to new and exciting ladybug and turtle items, in store events and much more!

- Dan & Rhonda Bond and Zoe Stewart

Delaware Today honors downtown Milford Business Women

We are delighted that Delaware's leading magazine, Delaware Today recognized the efforts of a group of women in Milford whose businesses have helped restore the vitality and charm of downtown Milford. These five women, including Rhonda Bond, co-owner of the LadyBug Shop and Turtle Treasures, were selected as honorees in the magazine's annual Women in Business feature. In addition to Rhonda (first on the left in the accompanaying photo) were Teri Carter of EcoChic Boutique, Michiko Seto of Blooming Boutique, Leigh Minor Nagy of Minorbird and Gail Angelucci of Angelucci Fine Woodworking & Stained Glass Studios. The magazine also recognized these and other leading Delaware business women with a wonderful luncheon in Wilmington last Thursday.

Tracking Sea Turtles – Kemp’s Ridley

Sea turtles are tireless travelers. They spend most of their lives in the water. Swimming and gliding along ocean currents they can cover thousands of miles over a vast territory during their travels. Each of the eight species of sea turtles covers different portions of the earth’s waters. Scientists have been studying their travel paths by gluing radio transmitters to the backs of turtles and monitoring their movements. Recently live tracking information on these monitored turtles has been made available to the public via the Internet.

The Kemp's Ridley , the smallest of sea turtles, travels throughout the Gulf of Mexico and sometimes follows the Gulf Stream currents northward along the Atlantic coast and even crosses the Atlantic to Europe and Great Britain. Almost all females return each year to a single beach—Rancho Nuevo in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas—to lay eggs.

The Institute of Marine Mammal Studies, located in Gulfport, Mississippi, recently tagged and released six of these turtles into the Gulf at the mouth of the Mississippi River. The turtles are named Skipper, Squirt, Scuter, Crush, Marlin and Terry. The information gathered by the IMMS is placed on their website http://www.imms.org/satellite_tracking.php, allowing everyone to monitor the movements of these six turtles.

Turtle Treasures features a large selection of turtle gifts for everyone that is inspired by these wonderful creatures.