When visiting Crane Point Hammock, you can wander along the beautiful trails and see some incredible sights. You can see the oldest house there and see wildlife all around. In the visitors center they even have some fish native to the area such as pork fish and squirrel fish. What you may not expect to see there are two tortoises that do not always get along. They have two tortoises there named Rocko and Charlie, that a volunteer couple comes to feed and take care of before enjoying a walk. When you see them, you can quickly tell the differences between the two. Charlie is more active and will eat anything you put in front of him. Rocko on the other hand is more calm and very picky about his food. He loves kale, watermelon, and hibiscus though some other foods he will refuse to eat. You cannot keep two male tortoises together since they tend to become aggressive toward one another. In this case since they are both males Charlie is usually the one who flips Rocko over. Because of this they are looking for a space so they can separate Rocko and Charlie.
Hi Mikaila, I also found it very cool that they had two very large tortoises at the Crane Point Hammock. Such large tortoises are something that I would only ever expect to see at a zoo or large pet store and it really surprised me when I saw them there. It was really cool to see them eating and walking around their enclosure so close up, I think that's the closest that I have ever been to a tortoise of that size. I also found it pretty funny that the one tortoise, Charlie, would often flip over his roommate Rocco and that they needed to separate the two because of this occasional fighting.
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