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.

Thursday, June 23, 2022

Brenda and Kim discovered the crawl on the upper end and we headed up that way. Bill delivered the new poles to MM#7 and we continued to the crawl.

It was located just below MM#6. The track in the wet sand was windblown and the track in the soft sand had been obliterated. A nice body pit was located up on the dune.

We probed and probed but found nothing. We marked it as a false crawl.