Another glorious morning on Waties Island, this view never gets old. The Monday Walking team found a crawl located between Marker 4 and 5, close to the ATV entrance. The body pit was well formed and if you look closely, you can see how she was situated with her front flippers resting in the sand. The body pit had already been invaded by our pesky Ghost Crabs.
After determined probing in the soft sand, the egg chamber was found. An egg was selected and sacrificed for the DNA study. We had guests Joyce, Tracie, and Haley and included them in this exciting discovery.
Ghost Crab traps were placed by Nest #5.
We did have another false crawl by our SNT - Special Needs Turtle close to the jetty. She crawled along thedune and back along the same path, pretty much. Similar mode as the one from Saturday (you can actually see the tracks of the Saturday one on the right in the whole crawl photo).
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| Nice neat crawl |
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| No fooling around, she came in nested, and returned to the ocean |
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| Body Pit - three Ghost Crab holes, look closely you can see the outline of her front flippers in the sand |
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| Eureka! Eggs! |
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| Monday Walkers - Kim, Haley (guest), Arlene, Janice, Tracey (guest), Joyce (Guest) and Leslie |
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