Meet the ‘Punk of the Turtle World’ and Read Its Strange Story

The plans upset van Wyk, who was still learning photography a time, so he decided to something about it. He went down to the river and spent an entire day in the water wearing a wetsuit, taking hundreds of terrible images while his limbs went numb and turned blue from the cold. But then, he got lucky. Suddenly, he encountered an animal with a full head of green algae “hair,” grown in mohawk style. Just the right subject for a glamour shot of the turtle he planned to do so that viewers can relate to it and realize the importance of preserving the species.