Posts by Caswell Turtle Watch

Nest #5 is located east of the 400 walkway and had a 37” crawl. We had a 35” false crawl in the 700 block this morning too.

Nest #3 is west of the 400 walkway and a 34” crawl safely placed her eggs in the dune.

Nest number 2 today.  31” crawl out on the Baptist cliff side.  We relocated 109 eggs to the Baptist steps.

We have our first nest!!! Nest number one has 104 eggs, located east of the golf course and had a 38” crawl.

Morning patrol started today.  Of course there wasn’t anything except a beautiful morning on the beach.  I will not send emails until I have something to send.  In case you didn’t know, South Carolina already has 1 Kemp’s Ridley nest and 2 loggerhead nests so it shouldn’t be long.

Nest 38 was inventoried resulting in 60 unhatched eggs. We checked several eggs and looks as if they had started development. The heavy rains created puddles of standing water in the Tom Hess area during the first weeks of August. Nest 31 and 35 are considered lost because of Florence but probably would have been Read More

Post Hurricane Florence MORNING!!! We are back. I rode the beach yesterday afternoon and words cannot describe what it looks like out there. There’s washed out places at most walkovers. Debris is all over the beach. The sand is gone. It’s amazing. We still have nests 38 and 39 in place. We will look for Read More

Nest #37 hatched and inventoried. 53 shells, 12 unhatched and 1 pipped dead. Nests #39 and #40 so far so good.

Funny how some things make you not think about other things, but today as we prepare ourselves for Florence remember that today, 9/11, is the day that forever changed the way we live. God bless America and have mercy on our little island. Nests 37, 39 and 40 are still okay for now.