Please do not go to turtle island. it has not been changed for 25 years and the animals are not treated to a standard that is expected in todays world.
for example. 30 large turtles are held in a small pen, smaller turtles are held in concrete tanks and handled constantly by tourists. the larger turtles are dragged up to the sand for the standard tourist shot.
THe snake is held in box with its mouth taped shut and brought out and dumped on anyones shoulders weather they want it or not.
the monkeys are the most disturbing, one was in a 2x2 cage with a chain around its neck. the other was in the open chained as well.
The monitor looked ok as far as I could tell and the bird, I think a yellow hornbill was available to sit on anyone walking by for a photo.
we paid $35us per person, then were bullied into paying more, and hassled to donate for turtle food. I doubt any of the money we paid went to the animals. The animals are used as a ploy to extract money from people.
Please tell as many people as you know not to go there. Go to the zoo, do the tree top walk, go to the safari park. both of these places are 100% better to animals than turtle island.