We thought DeeDee was gone for a while, but she's still trying.
Up in front of Marker 9 we found two false crawls, the first one showed that she was on the beach for a while - the incoming and outgoing tracks were quite different in length. Steve probed where she attempted a nest but found nothing.
The second crawl about 10 feet west of the first one was her again. This crawl was newer; the tracks covered her outgoing tracks from false crawl 18. This time, no attempt was made to nest; just up to the "wall of sand" and back to the ocean.
The tides were very high the last two nights and Nest 2 and 3 did get overwashed, but they should be fine.
Recognize these tracks?
Barb and Steve
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.
Waties Island Nest Count
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var nestdb_beach = 'Waties Island'; // beach name, eg Cape Island
var nestdb_height = 130;
var nestdb_width = 120;
var nestdb_state = 'South Carolina'; // state name, eg South Carolina
var nestdb_beach = ''; // beach name, eg Waties Island
var nestdb_height = 130;
var nestdb_width = 120;
var nestdb_state = 'South Carolina'; // state name, eg South Carolina
var nestdb_beach = ''; // beach name, eg Cape Island
var nestdb_height = 130;
var nestdb_width = 120;
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