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.

Sunday, August 22, 2021

Inventory of Nest 5, Sunday 8/22

Spitting rain when we left shed, then turned into a beautiful morning. Very little trash.

Nest #5 was above MM 4. This nest was laid on Wednesday, June 23 on nice spot, so it did not have to be relocated. It emerged on day 57. A small piece of egg shell was found in caged area when we arrived.

We found 113 hatched egg shells, two unhatched eggs, a pile of pieces, and two live hatchlings. This was a great inventory - Hatch success 91.8% and Emergence success 90.2%.