GALES POINT - Gales Point Wildlife Sanctuary

Dr Rimkus brings a student group to Gales Point each summer and works with Kevin Andrewin from the Gales Point Wildlife Sanctuary Management Committee to apply satellite tags on nesting sea turtles at Belize most important hawksbill nesting beach.

2013 - Moochula

Moochula, local name meaning "nice, fine, so good" was tagged by Dr Rimkus class in 2013.   Marymount University Professor Barry Erdeljon & student Sarah Gulick produced a mini-documentary on the Gales Point community and the important sea turtle nesting beach featuring Hawksbill Hope & the Gales Point Wildlife Sanctuary Management Committee team.  In 2015 it premiered at the Belize Film Festival.  The 8 minute piece showcases Belize's most important nesting beach for the endangered hawksbill sea turtle.

Marymount University students assist Gales Point Wildlife Sanctuary in locating and tagging sea turtles on the turtle nesting beach at Gales Point.

Migration path of Moochula, a hawskbill sea turtle tagged at Gales Point, is the first turtle tagged at Gales Point to migrate into another country.

2014 - Shiloh 4 Hope

2015 - Hawkeye Hope

Dr Todd Rimkus and his son after an all nighter tagging Hawkeye Hope. Hawkeye Hope had been flipper tagged on the same beach!

2016 - Hawkeye Hope Meeko

2017 - Callamars Hope for GPWS

CALLAMARS Hope for GPWS, a nesting hawksbill found at Gales Point, Belize was tagged on July 09, 2017 in Marymount University's & Hawksbill Hope's satellite tagging program. CALLAMARS represents an anagram of the first initials of the very generous robotics team from EXPO in St Paul, MN. Thanks to them for supporting sea turtle research in the most organic way!!