Tuesday, May 24th False Crawl #2

 An interesting morning! Bill walked the short end and I walked with Sherrie on the long end. Not much sun but the breeze was pleasant.  

We get almost to MM#7 and there is a crawl.  High tide was around 3 AM.  The track was very short and no V.  The going and coming track was almost on top of one another. Also the same length due to the tide.  The width was 77 cm or 30.3 inches.  Could this be a newbie?

We walk up to the perfect pit laid up in the dune above the high tide line and Bill says, "What?"  I'm behind him not seeing the hole and wondering what was going on.  She dug about an 18" deep hole and then left.  No tracks around the nest so she wasn't spooked by animal. 

Bill probed all around and found no other places that suggested she dug again there.  Bill dug in the bottom of the hole but after some soft sand he hit solid sand.  

We had never witnessed a nest where the turtle dug and then did not lay her eggs.  New territory for us.   We now have 2 False Crawls - maybe tomorrow.

And then there was Waties beauty...

This one has me singing, "Starry, starry night..."
Love that sky!