Thursday's walk and #15 inventory

The island was beautiful this morning.  Nice breeze, calm ocean, sand that had been swept clean by the high tide and the sun put on quite a show!

A walk of the island revealed evidence of a king tide (with a higher tide tomorrow).  No nests were overwashed but it was close.

One straggler seemed to make it out of Nest #16.  This nest will be inventoried on Saturday.

Thirteen CCU Sea Turtle Club members joined us for the actual inventory of nest #15.  For many it was their first visit to Waties.

This nest was laid on June 29th and it emerged at 58 days.  There were 86 hatched eggs shells, 10 that were unhatched and no dead or live hatchlings.  Including the DNA sample, a total of 97 eggs were laid by this mother.  The hatch success rate was 89% which is above average.

It truly was a glorious day!