The Travel Turtle Geocoin Tucker (proxy)

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Owner:
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Released:
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Origin:
Oregon, United States
Recently Spotted:
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to crawl from cache to cache collecting interesting facts about turtles

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Tucker (proxy)

Like turtles, travel bugs sometimes travel very slowly.  This little turtle wants you to know that the Western Pond Turtle and the Western Painted Turtle are the two species of turtle indigenous to Oregon. Both species are listed as critical on the state's sensitive species list. You can learn how to help protect Oregon turtles at Oregon Turtles.com. When you log your find of this coin, please share an intersecting fact about turtles: something you read on the web site, a personal experience, or something else you happen to know.
  • In August 2012, Ornith let us know that like other reptiles, turtles are ectotherms—varying their internal temperature according to the ambient environment, commonly called cold-blooded. However, leatherback sea turtle have noticeably higher body temperature than surrounding water because of their high metabolic rate
  • In September 2012, Penny told us that there were a lot of box turtles that lived in the surrounding woods where she lived in Pennsylvania. Box turtles, by definition, have a moveable hinge on the lower shell that allows them to retract inside the shell and then completely close up, leaving no flesh exposed.
 
  • In Novmeber 2012, after traveling the country for two years, Tucker went missing.  He had traveled more than 7,000 miles.
  • June 2015, having been missing for three years, I activated a proxy.  This proxy looks like a teenage mutant ninja turtle.  He is being released with five of his brothers and sisters, who also needed to be replaced.

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Tracking History (11848.6mi) View Map

Mark Missing 7/10/2017 howarthe marked it as missing   Visit Log

The owner has set this Trackable as missing.
Write note 8/27/2016 olivia platt posted a note for it   Visit Log

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Write note 2/5/2016 Saxo-fun posted a note for it   Visit Log

Cet objet voyageur n'est pas dans la cache "Cotton-Pickin Fun"

Saxo-fun
Qc, Canada
Dropped Off 9/8/2015 FloridaTBHunter placed it in Cotton-Pickin Fun Georgia - 26.38 miles  Visit Log

Dropped in Cotton-Pickin Fun (GC499VJ)
Retrieve It from a Cache 9/8/2015 FloridaTBHunter retrieved it from Perrydise Towers Georgia   Visit Log

TFTC!
Dropped Off 8/30/2015 tleu placed it in Perrydise Towers Georgia - 149.81 miles  Visit Log
Visited 8/26/2015 tleu took it to No Rest For The Weary II Georgia - 2,055.18 miles  Visit Log
Retrieve It from a Cache 8/18/2015 tleu retrieved it from Road Trip 2015 Event Washington   Visit Log

Cascade Corsairs was kind enough to let me have her trackables since I would be traveling a considerable distance back to my home in, as she said, the deep South. It sure is humid back down here! We have snapping turtles here, and I will include a picture of a plate-sized turtle I saw swimming in the lake by our house. Thanks for sharing!

  • 2015-08-12 08.54.38
Write note 8/18/2015 Cascade Corsairs posted a note for it   Visit Log

Passed this little guy on to TLEU at the Breakfast Event--Think he's headed to the Deep South...
Dropped Off 8/18/2015 Cascade Corsairs placed it in Road Trip 2015 Event Washington - 26.41 miles  Visit Log
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