Just thirty minutes cruising on a glorious midwinter’s day from Gladstone’s marina, you’ll find Quoin Island and since 2012 it has been a special refuge for some of the most beautiful sea creatures you will ever see – turtles.
When increased boat traffic in Gladstone Harbour and a decline in their feedstock in seagrass meadows lead to more injured and sick turtles in our region, Bob McCosker opened the island up to our shell-backed friends and they’ve recently celebrated the release of more than 120 turtles back into the wild after a period in ‘turtle rehab’.
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