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, June 4, 2018

Monday, June 4th - Nest #2

Beautiful drive across the causeway this morning, and sand artwork on the beach this morning, and we had a crawl and nesting sites..

Nest #2, right in front of Marker 7. Clear crawl tracks coming in and leaving, but that was the end of the normal nesting behavior. She had started a body pit, and than zigged-zagged along the dune, and created a second body pit, so which one do we start on?

Per Barb's guidance Leslie. Erin and Sarah started the probe effort. The turtle whisper arrived, and he found the nest. Many thanks Steve. The CCU students uncovered the nest, and the obligatory egg was taken for the DNA study. Maddy did the honors, and eggshell was placed in the vial.

Many thanks to all on the Monday walking team, it was a village effort to get this nest worked. So happy I drove back home yesterday.