THE first little turtle did a loop around Lord Howe Island before heading east towards New Zealand.

The second one sped down the Australian coastline, riding the Pacific Ocean's super-fast highway - the East Australian Current, just like the turtles in the movie Finding Nemo.

Released ... a loggerhead turtle.

The journey of these little ''dudes'' is a rare insight into the life of the mysterious, and endangered, Australian loggerhead turtle.

''Nothing is known about the Australian loggerhead,'' says Libby Hall, the manager of the wildlife hospital at Taronga Zoo.