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.

Thursday, July 19, 2012

One More Nest!

Another one for the books this morning - Nest #7 was found up on the upper end between Marker 8 and 9. Wonder why it is that the turtles seem to like that end of the island?

She crawled straight in and straight out - right on top of her incoming tracks.

That wiley coyote (or whatever it is) is starting to figure out that there might be food down there. Good thing the walkers got there before any damage was done.