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.

Monday, August 8, 2011

Nest 1 Inventory

Everyone gloving up getting ready to dig!

Keep digging!

Keela waiting for direction to keep digging. See all our shadows around the hole!

First live turtle to emerge

And here's sibling

We had to keep shade on the hatchlings. They kept walking towards the sun!

Keela and Valerie count up the inventory. 100 eggs, 91 hatched, 4 dead hatchlings, 6 live hatchlings!

Weird looking egg much smaller than rest. Debbie said on NMB they are called 'spacer' eggs.

The crew: Keela, Jingle, Mary, Cameron, Carson, Grandma Nancy, Chris, and Debbie

Amazing how much sand accumulated on top of this nest despite all the efforts!

This turtle stuff just gets better & better! A ride in Valerie's truck!

"Scooter" takes to the high seas

Respectfully submitted by Chris

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