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.

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Tuesday Morning Inventory of Nest 14

This week is a busy one for inventories: one today, one tomorrow and another one on Thursday morning. Even so, there are still eight more to go.

Cloudy morning over the marsh

Today we dug up Nest 14 which was laid back on June 25. It emerged at 60 days.

Day 60 Emergence

An easy dig; the sand was soft straight down to the nest chamber. Total hatched eggs was 62, 39 were unhatched and we found no live or dead hatchlings in the nest. The success ratio was a little lower than average at 60%.