Epic morning!

Another one of those days that somehow we knew we were finding something. Never did we think we would find four crawls...three of which would be nests! It was a long morning but wonderful.  It was cool, sunny and fruitful.

We found our first crawl between MM 1 & 2. There were very distinct tracks in the wet sand and then they kind of  levitated on dry sand! (Almost disappeared) Was it that windy last night?
She went all the way to the dune, turned around, started back and left a body pit midway back to the ocean. We probed for over an hour! We were disappointed to label it a false crawl.

We left the lower end and went up to the upper end of the island and hit the jackpot! Three more crawls.  Bill kept saying should we call in the calvary?  We had probed so long at the false crawl that he figured it could be hours.  I was praying we would find something quickly.

Bill called number 6 and 7 nests textbook.  We probed but not very long at all.

Nest #6

Next #7

And then there was number 8!  The both of us, of course, thought this would be the long probe again because it would be a false crawl.  We followed the meandering tracks up the beach.  Bill's quote was, "These remind me of Little Billy's tracks in the Family Circus cartoon...little dots going everywhere!" We wished we has been able to get drone footage. When we arrived at it the body pit was well-defined.  And with less than 10 probes Bill found the cavity.  Hallelujah! I could not believe it. 

Nest #8

Great day and an adventure with triplets!!

Flossie and Bill