Green Sea Turtle

Photo: EMILIANO · CC BY-NC

Green turtles use El Farito as a regular cleaning station, hovering motionless above coral heads while small wrasses remove parasites and algae from their shells and skin. Individuals are recognisable by their scarring patterns and return repeatedly, giving the site a resident feel rare among Caribbean reef systems. Their foraging on the adjacent seagrass beds and resting behaviour on the pinnacle make El Farito a textbook example of multi-habitat turtle ecology.