Junior Marine Biologist Summer Camp
Loggerhead Marinelife Center, 14200 U.S. Highway 1, Juno Beach, FL 33408
About
Junior Marine Biologist Summer Camp takes place at Loggerhead Marinelife Center and includes hands-on learning with marine experiences and encounters with marine life. Campers explore interactive exhibits, observe sea turtle patients, and engage with marine experts through educational experiences such as guided tours of the outdoor sea turtle hospital and visits to exhibits. The program is part of a broader summer camp and outreach effort that also includes field trips, beach cleanups, and other marine-focused activities.
• Schedule: Open daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Juno Beach Self-Guided Beach Cleanups on Saturdays, 8:30-11:30 a.m.
• Price: Free admission
Loggerhead Marinelife Center is a 12,000 square foot certified “green” facility that includes a state-of-the-art full service veterinary hospital, exhibit hall, outdoor classroom, research lab, resource center, and a marine-themed gift store, along with park amenities such as a guarded beach, nature trail, playground, and picnic pavilions. The facility houses live sea turtles and other coastal creatures, and exhibits include a massive prehistoric Archelon sea turtle replica, salt water aquaria, displays of local wildlife, and educational displays about South Florida's marine environment. Loggerhead Marinelife Center operates a Juno Beach Pier, offers a 24-hour sea turtle rescue line, and provides a 24-hour hatchling drop off container at its front entrance for stranded sea turtle hatchlings.
Loggerhead Marinelife Center hosts thousands of school children each year through field trips, outreach programs, summer camp, and other educational experiences, and it offers weekly Juno Beach Self-Guided Beach Cleanups. It runs the Unwrap the Waves Initiative, which allows students and community members to collect their candy wrappers from Halloween and recycle them, and it offers the Perry J. Cohen Boating Safety & Ocean Stewardship Course. Its mission is to promote conservation of ocean ecosystems with a special focus on threatened and endangered sea turtles.
In 1983 the Children’s Museum of Juno Beach was incorporated; in 1990 the name was changed to The Marinelife Center of Juno Beach; in April 2007 the organization relocated to a new facility and changed its name to Loggerhead Marinelife Center. Loggerhead Marinelife Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit sea turtle research, rehabilitation, education, and conservation facility. It has been nominated for Best Free Attraction by USA Today multiple times and was named the No. 1 “Best Free Attraction” in USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards back-to-back for 2024-25.
Last updated June 1, 2026.
• Schedule: Open daily 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; Juno Beach Self-Guided Beach Cleanups on Saturdays, 8:30-11:30 a.m.
• Price: Free admission
Loggerhead Marinelife Center is a 12,000 square foot certified “green” facility that includes a state-of-the-art full service veterinary hospital, exhibit hall, outdoor classroom, research lab, resource center, and a marine-themed gift store, along with park amenities such as a guarded beach, nature trail, playground, and picnic pavilions. The facility houses live sea turtles and other coastal creatures, and exhibits include a massive prehistoric Archelon sea turtle replica, salt water aquaria, displays of local wildlife, and educational displays about South Florida's marine environment. Loggerhead Marinelife Center operates a Juno Beach Pier, offers a 24-hour sea turtle rescue line, and provides a 24-hour hatchling drop off container at its front entrance for stranded sea turtle hatchlings.
Loggerhead Marinelife Center hosts thousands of school children each year through field trips, outreach programs, summer camp, and other educational experiences, and it offers weekly Juno Beach Self-Guided Beach Cleanups. It runs the Unwrap the Waves Initiative, which allows students and community members to collect their candy wrappers from Halloween and recycle them, and it offers the Perry J. Cohen Boating Safety & Ocean Stewardship Course. Its mission is to promote conservation of ocean ecosystems with a special focus on threatened and endangered sea turtles.
In 1983 the Children’s Museum of Juno Beach was incorporated; in 1990 the name was changed to The Marinelife Center of Juno Beach; in April 2007 the organization relocated to a new facility and changed its name to Loggerhead Marinelife Center. Loggerhead Marinelife Center is a 501(c)3 nonprofit sea turtle research, rehabilitation, education, and conservation facility. It has been nominated for Best Free Attraction by USA Today multiple times and was named the No. 1 “Best Free Attraction” in USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Awards back-to-back for 2024-25.
Last updated June 1, 2026.
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