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Two nest and one false crawl, a record for this year. A 30” crawl at marker 64.2 gave us nest 12. A 33” crawl at marker 77.9 gave us nest 13. A 33” false crawl at marker 78.8 gave us nothing.

We had a 33” false crawl at marker 76 where the sand was rock hard.  Fortunately we believe the same turtle tried again at Marker 75.1 where we found Nest #11.  We moved 122 eggs back from the high tide line. We now have one more nest than our worst year ever – 10 in Read More

No new nesting activity today.  Although nine of the nests were overwashed by the storm, they were in good shape and we hope they will still be viable.  We expected more damage after seeing the high waves yesterday but, if anything, we accrued sand on the dunes.

A 30” false crawl at marker 62.1. She came in hit some sand fencing, turned around and went back out.

Nest #10 is located at Mercer Street. She had a 33 inch crawl and we just missed her on morning patrol. A jogger has just seen her going back into the water about 15 minutes before we got there.

We had a 29” false crawl at marker 61.5.  Although she went all the way into the dunes, she didn’t lay.

We had nest #9 this morning from a 36” crawl in front of the Villas.  Some of the turtles seem to just get to the high tide line before they lay, so we moved 121 eggs back to the base of the dunes.  As this turtle made her turn to go back into the water Read More

Nest #8 is located at marker 61.5 .  She had 42 inch crawl and left her nest nice and secure at the edge of the dune.  

A 30” crawl gave us nest #7 at marker 79.5.  101 eggs were relocated  in front of the dune line.

We had nest #6 today from a 27” crawl at Marker 54 in the Baptists area.  We moved 116 eggs from the high tide line to marker #55.1.