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 10, 2019

EMERGED: Nest 11, the SNT

At least we're pretty sure this nest was laid by our "special needs turtle". This one is up at the jetty and the walkers today did see lots of tracks. Today is day 52 for this nest.

Several other nests are about the same age and should show activity soon.

Nest 11

Hatchlings!

Today there was a bit more trash than we have been seeing lately; the tides bring up strange things... A pair of rusted yard clippers! How do things like that float?

Barb and Steve

Waties Island Sea Turtles

Waties Island Nest Count

Saturday, August 10, 2019

EMERGED: Nest 11, the SNT

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