Wednesday, June 27

No turtle activity for the last 2 days. There hasn’t been any dredging activity for the past 2 days either. Maybe they are missing the hum of the pipe.

I’ve had several people ask about the organizational meeting. We are going to wait until after the 4th of July, date still TBD. Our nest #1 is in on the very eastern tip and has limited access. The volunteers that also work at Ft Caswell will be assigned that nest and morning patrol will check it daily. Nest #1 was overwashed several times during the first week of incubation. Historically, our first nest normally takes longer so no telling how many days it will really take. The 52nd day for nest #2 is July 14th and we will be in action by that date.

Sunday/Monday, June 24/25

The pipe has all been removed from the beach from the 200 block to Ocean Greens area.  They will still be moving pipe around to get it off our beach near Ocean Greens.  The area of our watch between the villas and the pier should be getting sand by mid-week and then our beach can be cleared to leave nest alone.

June 24

3 new nests and 6 false crawls.

Nest #21 (123 eggs) and #22 (95 eggs) were relocated to the east end near the Baptist walkover.  Nest #23 (51 eggs) is more east towards the eastern point.

June 25

No activity

Wednesday, June20

WOW!  4 nests today and 1 false crawl

  • Nest #17, 34” crawl, relocated 93 eggs to the east end
  • Nest #18, 40” crawl, relocated 133 eggs to the east end
  • Nest # 19, 35” crawl, relocated 75 eggs to the east end
  • Nest #20, 37” crawl, turtle crossed the pipe and went high in the dune so we have a nest east of the public parking.  She actually had a little trouble finding her way back across the pipe but did on her own.

False crawl was west of the lighthouse, 39” and crossed the pipe.

Tuesday, June 19

3 false crawls today and nest #16.

 

Nest #16 was laid on the east end in the escarpment so was relocated to west of the Baptist walkover.  36” crawl and 120 eggs.

 

The false crawls were most interesting.

42” crawl near Mercer St.  She was seen going back into the water and was huge.

Unmeasured crawl across the sand dike built at the waters edge by dredgers.  She followed along to the pipe’s end and went back into the water.

36” crawl to the pipe and across the pipe on a sand bridge.  She crawled about 50 ft then back across the same bridge back to the water.