On a rainy Saturday afternoon, we traveled to Samrec or the South Africa Marine Rehabilitation Centre.  It reminded me of the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center in Topsail and Possumwood Acres, a wildlife rehabilitation center in Hubert. Their missions are to help injured wildlife and educate the public.  Samrec is specifically trying to help the endangered African penguin. As I spend time in South Africa, I continue to make connections to home.  Over fishing or hunting, loss of habitat, and pollution are not local problems that only effect NC and the United States but worldwide issues. It was ironic that at the NC Maritime museum in Beaufort, I viewed a display about turtles entangled in trash. I then saw a similar exhibit with sea animals that died from the same problem here.  I hope we can learn, share and work together to help solve this universal problem.

"Anything else you're interested in is not going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water. Don't sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet."
Carl Sagan