Royal Thai Navy Third Fleet Turtle Nursery, Khao Lak

An awesome place to visit if you are interested in wildlife. This turtle sanctuary was set up by Queen Sirikit some years ago. This is on the Royal Thai navy base but we found it easily. A navy guy gave us a tour and his English was good. Normally up to 90% of young turtles die or are killed mainly by birds. So this group collect the turtles as they hatch when they are about 3cm long and keep them for about 6 months when that are released. They also rescue turtles which have been injured or trapped in fishing nets.

We had an amazing few hours here today. As has been said before, the turtles are either rescued due to plastic ingestion or entanglement or the eggs are collected after hatching until tge turtles are the right age for them to realistically survive. We were really fortunate in that we got to the sanctuary early and the man who takes care of the turtles was there and spent a lot of time explaining to us what the purpose of the sanctuary is. He has such passion for what he does and clearly loves his job. It was a real shame as he was letting several back into the ocean later this week but we are going home before then as it would have been amazing to witness. There's a nice coffee shop and gift shop afterwards and the beach was calm and clean too. There is a tsunami memorial there and plenty to do and watch for a good few hours. We will certainly return one day and recommend a visit.

This center helps for sea turtles, they raised them from born till the age when they become more independent. There are several swimming pools each swimming pool has it is own group of turtle which are divided by age. U can see from 1 month till several years. Center located close to the Andaman sea, cause when turtles become independent people release them to the nature. Recommended to visit this center if like animals.

sea ​​turtle rescue center. workers monitor the moment of laying eggs, collect them, nurse them and then raise the turtles until they can cope with the dangers on their own. then the turtles are released into the sea so that they can continue to live and breed freely. also here contain turtles affected by human impact. the park is small, there are pools with turtles of different ages. beautiful beach with white sand and casuarina. interesting not only for children, but also for adults.

This was a really good visit, to see the protected turtles. Admission is 60 THB. The project consists of a series of holding tanks where turtles range from newly hatched to much larger turtles, some of which had been rescued after being caught in discarded fishing gear or had tried to eat plastic carrier bags, mistaking them for jelly fish. Some were injured and received "care" from one of the volunteers. Although it seemed sad that the turtles are only in tanks and nothing to do, this is still an important work.