Ty is absolutely incredible. His facility is indescribable. You have to see it in person because you can’t sufficiently describe it to someone. He didn’t know me at all yet made me feel like we were friends. I’m so sorry I couldn’t make Turtle Fest. 🐢❤️🐢

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

No worries Lori!

@Rashidkhan-qn4ni

Ай бұрын

udixnwuJx😮

Fabulous Chris & Casey! Thank you for the shout out, and thanks Ty Park for Iguanaland and TurtleFest!

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Thanks Tony!!!!!

Ah so close to half a million subs!!! Come on people let's get this awesome channel up to 500K subs. I've been here a while now and hope this channel just keeps on growing!

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Sooooo close!! Thank you 🙏🏻

@eddiebrownmiller6803

Ай бұрын

I Want It To Go To Ten Million.

Wow what a great place to visit. Hoping the First Annual Turtle Fest was a huge success 💗 Thanks for taking us along!

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

With the escalators, I'm more afraid of who touched the rails.

Turtle people are the best. I really love Ty Park and his message

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

He’s such an amazing man!

@anniebell6846

Ай бұрын

@@GardenStateTortoise thank you to all of you for looking after these critters.

@JackieArmB

Ай бұрын

@anniebell6846, agree! Turtles/ tortoises are such wonderful creatures and have so much personality! Love all the pets I have. ❤️

@anniebell6846

Ай бұрын

@@JackieArmB what tortoises do you have?

Watching your pure joy at seeing these magnificent animals is so wonderful. I've always loved turtles and tortoises. We had a couple of turtles as a child that my mom rescued from a dissection lab. I also had a red eared slider down the road. Now, knowing so much more about them, unless I could really create an environment that they could thrive in, I would not want to take in any animal. Thank you for what you do, for caring for them, and for educating people. These animals are so much more than most people realize.

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much!!!

Casey...I also have a fear of escalators! You're not alone girl!

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

🙌🏻

Otis is my favorite turtle. Otis, my man!

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

🙌🏻

@MultiPetercool

Ай бұрын

@@GardenStateTortoise 🤙

@rosegann8339

Ай бұрын

Yes! Otis is the greatest!!❤

That mountain tortoise was my favorite... probably because the finger nibbling reminded me of my cat.

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

😂😂

Looks like you're at Jurassic Park.

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

🐢🙌🏻

Wow! Amazing video! It could have been twice as long. Your excitement around the turtles is really enjoyable to watch.

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I’m with Dan, I love diamondback terrapins. I haven’t seen one in the wild yet, but every time I’m at the beach or along a bay or lagoon I look for them. They’re such cool animals.

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

We’ll be showing plenty of wild terrapin footage in the coming months!

Such a great time. Was awesome getting to hangout with you guys . See you next year

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

For sure dude

I love that you went to Turtle Fest!! 🎉 We're just a few hours north... My husband and I wanted to go but couldn't make it. I appreciate the virtual tour, it's a great facility! And I LOVE that he gave a shout out to our local, native, and endangered gopher tortoises 💕 We must do everything we can to protect them.

Awesome tour of turtles and tortoises at Iguanaland!

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

Looks like you two had so much fun and it’s truly a joy to see! Thanks for bringing wonder and joy to all our life’s!!! 🐢 ❤️

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Thank you and yes we had a blast!

Great to see Ty's place and how far it's come, it's so hard to fathom how huge the property is. Always fun to be with fellow turtle and tortoise lovers who have dedicated themselves to such an important cause. Thanks Chris and Casey for taking us along, have a safe trip home.🐢🦎❤️👍

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

It’s truly remarkable. Thank you!

Love Ty's place it's awesome. My daughter who is 30 also has a fear of escalators.

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Oh wow! Casey is absolutely terrified

Love this place. So clean and well maintained and full of beautiful animals.

That was absolutely awesome 😎

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

I wanna gooooo!

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

🙌🏻🐢💪🏻

Wonderful!! Thanks so much for taking us along to the first ever Turtle Fest. I recogniized the venue from Animal Con footage the Brian Shared.

Turtlefest was amazing. Can't wait for next year's event.

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

💯

I bet this was a fantastic event. I had no idea soft shells could stretch their necks that far!

Iguanaland is absolutely on my bucket list!! I really need to get down there!! Beautiful!

Awesome video! It was so great to hang out, and be there with you two and everyone. Hope to do it again next year! Love your videos guys!!

LOVE that Florida softshell turtle! (19:35) S/he looks like the sports car version of a snapping turtle - sleek, sassy and speedy. If you asked me what my favorite turtle was - with no experience whatsoever to guide me - I would immediately say the spotted turtle. I don't know what it is about them, but my heart melts every time you show one. Whether they have a few spots or spots everywhere, it doesn't matter, they're just gorgeous.

What an amazing facility, and wonderful animals. Super people with great goals in common. Way to go, you folks have come so far.🖤🇨🇦

I want to see more. The vid was too short 😂 . Will be looking at purchasing the 2 books on turtles that were mentioned . ❤

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Awesome!

I'm surprised you did not bring Otis! I had a blue Iguana named Deleney. She was neglected and aggressive and missing toes per no nail clipping, burns from heat lamp. I rehabbed her into a sweetheart, aquiring painful whacks, then passed her on. I put her on a leash and walked her and all. Thanks for what you do!

Our yellow streaked head turtle came to us from my daughter's fifth grade class at the end of school. That was the same year our famous butterfly museum opened and ex worked there. They have a gorgeous lazy river so Lucky got a beautiful home. That was over 30 years ago, we still visit her. My daughter is almost 40 now. ❤❤❤

Awesome video! What a joy to watch and see other people who share your passion for these beautiful animals. ❤

This Is By Far The Best Video You Guys Have Ever Made! Keep On Caring For God's Creatures.

One day I can be like him, having lots and lots of space for land tortoise.. #Greetings from Indonesia

That's a great video! Educational as always. It's so wonderful to see the love you feel for these animals ❤🐢❤

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏻

That was sooo much fun🎉 I didn’t know there were so many turtle places in AZ.❤ Great video.🎉❤😊

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Thank you 🤗

@kelleyrancher

Ай бұрын

If just so you know this is Florida not Arizona

@debbeasher-k4764

Ай бұрын

@@kelleyrancher 🤣🤣🤣I was referring to to the number of Turtle places represented there that were in AZ😂😂😂

Amazing video! Can't wait to visit this place someday.

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Please do!

I would love to donate a turtle pyrography piece for the next auction! Anything I can do to help the turtles of the world! I'm also buying those books right NOW!

Hi Chris Such a wonderful video. Love what Ty has accomplished with Iguana Land. I hope that Turtle Fest is a grest success. Such sn awesome collection of turtles. It must be hard to pick a favorite. They are all so smazing. and beautiful.❤Turtles. Cindy

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

We raised over 45k for turtle conservation!

I'm definitely gonna add Iguana Land to my bucket list ❤ Next year, Turtle Fest!! Wow! I was terrified of escalators as a kid. I'll use them now, but if you're in a hurry don't get behind me 😂

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

You’ve gotta get there!

Beautiful sanctuary the habitats are geared toward each species needs.

I understand Casey’s fear of escalators. I am now 73 and when I was around 5 my heel was caught in one…obviously that was before today’s more stringent safety rules. Took a chunk out of my heel…had to stop the escalator and remove my shoe to get me out of its clutches. My heart beats faster every time I get on one. Thank you for this video…being so disabled I can’t travel so video tours like this are lovely.

love turtles. I grew up with eastern painted turtle. always brings me back

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Love easterns!

I could’ve watched several hours of this. Thank you for sharing.

hi..... i am from south afra and i looooooooooooooooovvveee tortoises....i have a leopard tortoise...... and uprgade its habitat like every week lol using things from the garden...... i thought i was like alone in this obsession with turtles and tortoises but..... it is really awesome to see that theres a community of us

It looks like you had a blast! What was that turtle with a crazy long neck? You are so lucky that Otis does not have a neck that long! Otherwise you would not have a nose left on your face😂

I dont know if Casey meant to make the moments of you walking out to the car park look like a live action scene from Dora the Explorer, but it was truely remarkable how adorable you looked swinging your arms with your backpack on 😂😂😂 Now that thats out of the way, the stained glass piece was absolutely ❤ Thanks so much to the both of you and everyone else involved for all the amazing work you guys do! -Lots of love and appreciation from a fellow female named Casey

What a wonderful event!!!

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

❤️🐢🙌🏻

Love this ❤

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Thanks!

Wow just wow! ❤

So jealous ❤

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

🐢🐢🐢

Looks like a great adventure. Thank you for sharing this

Thank you for sharing. I want to go visit one day. My favorite species the the Black breasted leaf turtle because of La Cay.

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

That’s awesome!!

Hey guys, enjoyed the video....Ralph

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Thanks Ralph!

Excellent video thank you. It sounds like an awesome place to go.❤

My favorite aquatic turtle is the Fly River Trutle - I melt at the sight of one. And the Aldabra Tortoise on land :)

great video. so many lovely turtles.

Where can we purchase a Turtlefest shirt! Amazing event! Amazing episode!

Great video! I always love seeing Ty's place.😮❤❤

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed!

I love Blake!!! Hi Blake! ❤️

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

🙌🏻

I love my Red Eard Sliders.

I need to go there asap! ❤

Love this

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

🙌🏻🐢

My sister has a turtle 🐢 😊

What an amazing place!! You looked like you really enjoyed yourself. I live in Georgia. I'm going to try to get there. Oh and by the way, your wife's fear of escalators is valid. I got my foot caught under the top panel and it chewed the heck out of my foot. So I'm right there with her❤

Great video. My kids now want to go to this place

I jst bought the book!

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Excellent!

@rebeccacamacho-sobczak4282

Ай бұрын

@@GardenStateTortoise I have learned so much about reptiles, turtles, tortoises, and all things .......reptilian?

That woman from Arizona tortise compound I got my female Russian tortoise from her

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Jules rules!

@Hewbrry496

Ай бұрын

@@GardenStateTortoise yes sir

Wow

Looks like nothing but fun

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

So much fun

@gregconcepcion2833

Ай бұрын

I would love to attend next year. How can I get the heads up for the event ?

It’s odd seeing DanTheTurtleMan not in a shrimp suit. But I enjoy it

Hi ty how are you doing today

I gonna hide in a plane going in that direction! But it'll be next year!!

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

🙌🏻😂

Hi Chris how are you doing today

I’d be afraid of the plane falling apart in the air, than an escalator 😂

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Well, the real threat is any vehicle actually. That’s what we should all be fearing!

@KxNOxUTA

Ай бұрын

@@GardenStateTortoise You'd be scared, too, if you saw the very gruesome footage of an Asian woman (I think she was Chinese, but I'm no longer sure) getting swallowed and dissembled into bits as a part of the escalator malfunctioned and she just had enough time and instinct to set her toddler down before her, as she got dragged in, to save the child's live. An absolutely tragic real life case. 😱 After seeing that video, I've never been the same about escalators. I can still use them but I'm holding on to the railing with my hands turning white and with my muscles ready to jump up if I notice any instability. And if I can avoid them, then I do!

Honestly, I saw a horrific accident on an escalator at the mall once as a kid and I will never forget it. Definitely not an irrational fear when you see what falling on one of those things can do. I still use them but I get it!

A fear of escalators is not entirely irrational. Escalators can cause grave bodily injury and even, albeit rarely, death.

@mbrooks5897

Ай бұрын

Ok Karen

Love your stuff chris and casey living in australia we miss out on all the critters you work with only aussie stuff here so watching your videos gives us aussie reptile lovers something to watch that we normally only see in a zoo you guys get to have for real even all our australian reptiles shame our country is so strict on stuff like reptiles we can get exotic birds and fish but reptiles no

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Thank you so much James!

I have a sulcata at home they are very sweet

We have a lot of snapping turtles and box turtles in Kentucky.

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Awesome!

I was trying to find a video on shell care but there’s not many that explain enough, I know you’ve talked about moister for shells but I would like a deep drive and care routine for tortoise shells also a care routine for if a shell, chips, cracks, gets shell rot, stars pyramiding or soft shelling. My tortoises shell always looks dry and dirty so I was wondering how to keep them clean and shiny. My Greek tortoise has a chip right in the middle top of the shell and I can’t find any videos on whether I should patch it, leave it or medicate it. Thank you! 🐢

It seems that ALL Animals are In Trouble , these days😮😢 Very cool video 🎉

Come for biggest week in birding and go to Toldeo zoo!!!!!!!

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

🙌🏻

Hello, like your videos! can you make tips on how to take care of egyptian tortoises, because i have one?

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Thank you. We do have several videos about them on our channel, just search through the older videos.

Ty's place is awesome. I am just curious though with all of those people there and going from cage to cage with shoes on if there isn't some bio-risks involved with the animals? I know tortoises and turtles are notoriously hearty though.

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

It really is. I’m sure he wouldn’t allow the few of us who did that to do so without being confident of certain things. A similar case at our facility is we only go from enclosure to enclosure if the animals have been thoroughly tested over the years for those highly contagious Chelonian diseases. If it’s something questionable, we work with those animals last and wash up afterwards.

@BajatheChickenMan

Ай бұрын

@@GardenStateTortoise Awesome! Glad to hear to Turtlefest was such a success! Ty needs to install some live feeds of those Aldabra's for us :)

What kind of turtles were the ones Blake was holding?

Tony Monahan's Turtle Lovers' Guidebook where can u get that book

I was hoping to see more about red footed tortoises..

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

We’ve already done entire videos on them. 👍🏻

I live in Arkansas and am looking at getting a tortoise and building an outdoor habitat similar to my huge one for my box turtles. Which tortoise should I get? Sulcata?, red footed, Russian, or leopard? I don’t think my local pet store has a Herman’s.

We’re is this located?

The best way to get ready over your fear of escalators is one Dont wear open toed shoes don't wear crocs don't wear open toed sandals don't wear high heels wear hiking boots steel toed hiking boots because escalators can't eat steel toad hiking boots they can't fit under the treads you know where it connects back to the floor again and you just have to remember to your spatial awareness and to step off before you get to the end and keep walking don't stop get off the escalator keep walking and move out of the way in cases somebody else in coming up behind you. and you'll get the hang of it soon enough sweetie and it could be worse things you're afraid of or have an irrational fear of or rational fear of what was the last time you heard of somebody getting stuck into an escalator either hurt or injured or killed as much as like the 1918 20s 1840s something like that I remember there was a one wooden escalator that was still in operation in Boston somewhere up until like the 1980s and once it broke down and the whole little wooden steps they just collapsed back into the escalator and like a few hundred people fell down the escalator and it was like a long escalator who are the longest ones in the world cause it goes way down deep and I've been on that escalator before didn't know about the accident this was like 100 years prior Because I use the escalator in the 1970s 1980s as a young kid young teen and when I found out it about afterwards I was like I tried taking this table once and I said screw that i'm taking this glitter for now and then they switched up the escalator made in more modern one that takes like 1/4 of the time to get up there so it's like a speed escalator so it does really cool and I've never heard anybody getting injured on that one Now you have to understand that when the person people got injured it was like right after it was built so they put in safeguards afterwards which they didn't know they need to put in and also so it's safe but they're a lot safer now than they used to be 120 years ago the first railroad station in Boston I think it was like 1880 something so it was soon thereafter that it was the blue line I believe it was the Maverick station i'm not positive i'm just trying to go off my own memory from years ago see the Maverick or State Street is one of the blue lines or green line mixed stops there's only four mixed stops aren't red orange blue blue green green orange or green red yeah green red but it's near those four stations And now they have elevators which are even scary cause they can get stuck in between the street and the platform and half the time there's little buzzers to say help don't work so let's saw somebody saw you go in and the oven to get stuck and does not come back down nobody knows you're in there so I don't really use an escalator than an elevator any day Which sucks because I can't anymore because I'm in a wheelchair so I have to use the elevator

I want to cone down next year in 2025!!

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Yes! 🙌🏻

20:22 Why does it have such a long neck? How does it fit in its shell?

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

So it can catch prey and also so it can extend its snout to the top of the water without exposing the rest of the body. They pull the neck in by forming an S shape internally.

Second one

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

👍🏻

This is the video of you guys at Turtlefest!? 0:08

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Not understanding your comment

@josharvin6239

Ай бұрын

@@GardenStateTortoise how so?

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

@@josharvin6239because of the time stamp you put of 0:08, just wasn’t sure what you meant

First one

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

🙌🏻

I feel silly but what kind of turtle were you and Blake showing us?

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

Not silly at all! The painted or Central American wood turtle.

@MamaJ1997

Ай бұрын

@@GardenStateTortoise thank you! 😊

Just curious, I have a female red eared slider that's 37 years old, and she's the size of a diner plate. What's the average life span for such a turtle?

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

They can surpass 50

I agree with your wife on escalators.

@GardenStateTortoise

Ай бұрын

😂😂 she’s absolutely terrified