Posts by CWB Turtle Writers

It was a beautiful morning on the beach.  Today we had one nest and three false crawls. Nest #9 is in front of the villas.  We relocated 104 eggs . She had a 37” crawl The three false crawls were at the east end, all were 38” crawls and on one crawl she encounter a Read More

3 new nests today! Nest #6 had a 33″crawl and located at the Villas Nest #7 had a 35″ crawl and located near 513 CBR Nest #8 had a 38″ crawl and located near the 400 walkway We have 8 nests and there are only 31 nests in the whole state!  26% of the nests Read More

Another busy morning on the beach and we had 5 false crawls and Nest #5. False crawls; 31 inch at Trott St 31 inch near 613 CBR 27 inch near 509 CBR 32 inch at Lighthouse walkway 32 inch just west of the 200 walkway Nest #5 had a 36 inch crawl and near 435 Read More

WOOHOO!!!  We are off! 5, FIVE, did you hear we had 5 crawls today. We had two 38” and three 36” crawls resulting in Nests #3 and Nest #4.  They went a long way up the beach even for the false crawls.

Interesting Monday morning. Morning patrol on our beach was beautiful but uneventful. However, we had a call from Sarah that’s there were 3 crawls in Southport on the Cape Fear River. We found three 42 inch crawls. Only one produced a nest so we relocated 115 eggs to our beach on the west side of Read More

Nest #1 this morning!  It is at the west end of the parking lot, just above the high tide line so we didn’t move it.  She came in, did a full circle then moved over and dug a perfect nest.  The eggs were almost too easy to find so Debbie got her first taste of Read More

Although not on Caswell Beach/Oak Island, the first sea turtle crawl of the 2016 nesting season was documented yesterday on Onslow Beach, in Camp Lejeune. It was a false crawl – so there should be at least one  nest laid somewhere nearby in the near future!  Georgia and South Carolina each have three loggerhead nests Read More

The 2016 Turtle Season has officially started, and Caswell Turtle Watch will be out every morning patrolling the beach. Although we won’t start daily notices quite yet, check back to see if there is any activity. Hoping for the best turtle season ever.

We had nest #2 at marker 65 (600 walkway) with a 30” crawl. She had crawled a long way and laid close to the dunes. We also had a 30” false crawl at the Baptists and a 32” false crawl in front of the Villas.

We had 3 false crawls this morning.  There was one 38 inch crawl and two 32 inch crawls.  Still no nest but at least we know they found us.