Tally the turtle was stranded on the beach in 2021 during a storm, when she was discovered by a dog walker. She will soon be released into the Gulf of Mexico.
"They're incredibly rare and they're only really found around the Gulf of Mexico, and sometimes the juveniles out into the Atlantic, but generally-speaking not in the UK and definitely not alive."
Tally was named after Talacre, the beach opposite the Wirral in the mouth of the River Dee where she was discovered by a dog walker during Storm Arwen.
"We assume that she'd just essentially hitched a ride on the gulf stream; they do that to migrate up the Eastern Seaboard [of the US] anyway, become unconscious... and she'd been knocked off in the storm and ended up with us here in little old North Wales."
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