Waties Island Sea Turtles

Waties Island, the northernmost barrier island in South Carolina is roughly 4.0 km in length. It is a private undeveloped barrier island at the border of North/South Carolina. All sea turtle monitoring by this group is authorized by the SCDNR Marine Turtle Conservation Program under Permit MTP500. We strive to help protect the sea turtle, and we are at it again this season! The site will be updated often during the nesting season - May 1st through October.

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Nest #13 Inventory

Saturday morning inventory of Nest #13 - 96 hatched - pretty good outcome - and 38 unhatched. Always the best part is helping any live hatchlings left in the nest on their way. Today we found three and all seemed to do just fine (we also found one dead turtle).

Thanks to Valerie for sharing her photos...

There it goes!

The first live one

Waties Island Sea Turtles

Waties Island Nest Count

Saturday, August 20, 2016

Nest #13 Inventory

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