Rare albino turtle found in Australia
<p>Wildlife volunteers in Queensland got a pleasant surprise recently when they recently discovered an Albino turtle on Castaways beach in the Sunshine coast.</p>
<p>Members of the Coolum and North Shore Coast Care group were surveying a green turtle nest last Sunday when they discover the rare hatchelling hiding under the sand.</p>
<p>Pergian Beach resident Jane Watson describes the newborn, who was one of 122 eggs.</p>
<p>“He was beautiful, you could see his flippers were pink, like the blood flowing”.</p>
<p>Threatened species expert Dr Col Limpis told ABC news ‘Albino hatchlings are extremely rare; it probably occurs at the rate of one in many hundreds of thousands of eggs that are laid’.</p>
<p>Dubbed "Alby" by the volunteers that found him at the weekend, he defied stubborn blades of grass, to make it to the sea. </p>
<p>“It was very chipper and just took off into the water as happy as can be”, said group president Linda Warneminde.</p>
<p><img width="499" height="280" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/15405/turtle-1_499x280.jpg" alt="TURTLE 1"/></p>
<p><em><img width="499" height="280" src="https://oversixtydev.blob.core.windows.net/media/15406/turtle-2jpg_499x280.jpg" alt="TURTLE 2jpg"/></em></p>
<p><em>Image credit: CNN.com</em></p>
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