Green sea turtle car wash

photo by Terry Lilley

A green sea turtle at a cleanining station.

photo by Terry Lilley

A green sea turtle slows down at a cleaning station.

Do you know that honu, our Hawaiian green sea turtle goes on a regular basis to a “turtle cleaning station” just like we may go to a car wash! These turtle cleaning stations are just magical to watch as often there will be two to eight large sea turtles just laying motionless in the water column with their flippers out stretched. This odd looking sea turtle behavior signals the local reef fish that they want to be cleaned. Just like us pulling up to the car wash!

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