Sea Museum Alborania

This guide to the Sea Museum Alborania in Málaga follows a loggerhead sea turtle pulled off an Estepona beach one January, starved, dehydrated and with a badly damaged eye, into the marine rescue center that grew out of a small classroom founded on the Málaga docks in 1989. You'll hear how the center, formalized five years later as a rescue unit for the Alboran Sea, has spent three decades treating turtles, dolphins and even pilot whales, and what months of antibiotics and eye care meant for her chances. Look toward the turtle patio, where today's arrivals are still mid-recovery, their outcomes not yet decided.