Surprise Friday

We had a wild (undetected) nest #15 this morning.  Tourists had rescued one turtle from a crab and we found a nest just above the tide line. We excavated and found 82 shells, 24 unhatched eggs and 15 live turtles.  Hopefully the other 67 made it to the water.  We assume the nest hatched just before daylight.  We now believe this nest was the false crawl found on May 31st at the same location. Nothing happening with the other nests.  #1, 2 and 3 are all collared.

To the helpful runner who said we had a new crawl at the public access, this was actually people tracks dragging beach equipment.