Monday, August 12 another emergence Nest 12

The day started with a beautiful sunrise, nice breeze and good company.  We had an exciting morning.

Nest #12 Emerged on day 53.  Due to the weather yesterday, we did not see any tracks.  However, when we checked the emergence hole, we could see a hatchling at the top of the nest chamber.  It was alive, no action taken, so hopefully, it will be well rested and head to the ocean when it is cooler.

If you look closely, you can see
 the outline of a hatchling

 
We have two other nests which have depressions, #9, and #10.

 Nest 10

Nest 9

Unfortunately, we also saw ATV tracks on the upper end of the beach. which was disturbing.  They attempted to go up into the dunes, rode in the back of the dunes, did donuts in front of  nest #18 making a mess with deep tire tracks.  They even went up into the dunes by our PN nest by the jetty.  Most of the destructive tracks are above M8 to M9.  They did get on the beach from the old ATV entrance, around M5.