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, September 3, 2012
ALSO THIS MONDAY, LABOR DAY
During the week as they walked, Truman and Dave spotted what they thought could be a depression. We decided to check this out while we were on the beach.
While digging, they came across a dead hatchling. We all cheered as we thought we had another nest. As it turned out, we did not. We are thinking that maybe a ghost crab caught one of the hatchlings and dragged it to it's hole.
Barb did take the hatchling to see if a DNA study would determine to what nest this hatchling belonged.
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