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
Friday, July 22, 2016
Thursday, July 21 Nest #24
Crawl was 5-600 north of mile marker #1
Obtaining one egg for DNA testing
Taking only the shell for testing
Record breaker!!!
We also had a false crawl, (or, Braxton Hicks, as I like to refer them as :-), two hundred yards north of the entrance
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