QUEEN OF THE LONG-DISTANCE SWIMMERS!

Genevieve here!! I've stroked 6,263 miles since I left Costa Rica 13 months ago!

Since laying my eggs in February 2007 on our dark nesting beach of Playa Grande, I've swum the equivalent of more than two times across the United States in my quest to eat jellyfish.

Sad to say, besides me, only three other turtles -- Turtleocity, Freedom and Billie -- are still sending back signals through their satellite tags. The others stopped transmitting, starting with Stephanie Colburtle, right after the Great Turtle Race, and ending with Sundae, late last year. If you want to find out the reasons why those turtles' tags stopped transmitting, check out this blog.

Turtleocity's clocked 5,226 miles. Freedom's traveled 4,859 miles, and Billie, whom we didn't hear from for a couple of months because her satellite tag was probably covered in slime, has paddled 5,168 miles.

We're all eating jellies in or on the edge of the South Pacific Gyre. It's an enormous area that stretches from South America to New Zealand. Although it's called the world's largest ocean desert, our fave food -- jellyfish -- live in patches, here and there, and we find 'em. Don't ask me how. I'm not telling. The water temperature is cooler than around the equator, which is more to our liking, and we turtles don't have to fight the stronger currents along the coastline of South America.