It was a bitter-sweet day for the Texas State Aquarium.
The staff had to say goodbye to Alice the dolphin.
Alice was loaded into a truck and drvien to her new home: sea world in San Antonio.
The dolphin was rescued back in April of last year after being buried in sand on the national seashore.
Since then, over 100 staff members at the aquarium have been caring for Alice 24 hours a day.
Lea Walker with the Texas Marine Stranding Network says "it's a bittersweet thing. We have been working for over a year with this animal, we haven't had days off or anything. So yeah, we will be happy to have a break but we also be saddened because she won't be here anymore. We're happy that she will be in Texas but it's like sending a child off the boarding school with the knowledge that they are not coming back."
Alice is moving to Sea World so she can live and play among other dolphins.
She has been living alone this past year. It took 8 people to lift the 300 lbs. dolphin into the truck. Aquarium staff say Alice fasted this morning so she wouldn't get car sick on the way to San Antonio.