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 6, 2011

False Crawl and Inventory 8/6/2011

False Crawl?

The tracks-36"

The mound

Karen probing

Where are those eggs? False crawl....

Inventory Nest #2

Jake, Will, Ryan hold eggs

Where are the baby turtles?

Inventorying

The inventory

Val and Sarah explaining the difference in the development of two small hatchlings

Will with one of the undeveloped hatchlings.

Throwing the eggs back in the hole!
Bill & Flossie Chapman

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witurtlesAugust 6, 2011 at 11:21 AM
We had such fun! What a wonderful way to spend a morning with your grandchildren.
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