Posts by Caswell Turtle Watch

2 false crawls today just east of the lighthouse. We have more beach for nests now. From Ocean Greens to the east is clear so come on turtles.

Nest #25 today. 39” crawl. Relocated 142 eggs to our favorite place.

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 Read More

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 Read More

12 false crawls and no nest.  Probably some sort of record and probably the same 3 or 4 turtles trying to find a place.  Good news is they are picking up the pipe so it won’t be long now.

5 false crawls today.  4 of them crawled to the pipe and turned around.  The 5th one couldn’t get passed the cabana to get to the pipe.  Poor turtles

5 false crawls today but no nest.  3 were in the sand placement area and 2 on the eastern point.

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 Read More

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 Read More

Nest 15 was laid east of the Baptist walkover and had a 37” crawl.  She crawled over nest #9 and laid her nest behind.