Our nest is quietly incubating under the sand and all is quiet above. As Bill put it, "Just a beautiful, enjoyable, soul soothing morning."
No additional nest activity again today. The one we have remains quiet. The morning was cloudy and cool. We walked down to the lower end and saw that someone is still trying to dig out the boat. There is no way they are going to get that boat out. They start digging, get just so far, leave, the tide comes in and buries the boat back up. ☺
Hi All - the Monday team sends their regards. Started the day with a beautiful sunrise over the marsh. It was cool on the beach to start, a jacket felt good. Sorry, no sea turtle news today, lots of jelly fish on the beach, so you know they are coming, they follow the food.
Today was a light trash day, and we continue to pick up balloons. Its that time of year!
Enjoy the pictures, compliments of Sharon T.
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| Start of a beautiful morning |
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| Low, low tide in the marsh |
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| Sunrise over the dunes |
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| Up at the jetty |
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| We are finishing up our walk, and dark clouds moved in |
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| Here come the dark clouds |
It was cold today walking, a balmy 43 degrees, but a light breeze, no rain, beautiful sunrise and sky. No Sea Turtle activity, and Nest #1 is fine. A lot of sand has blown on this nest, nothing abnormal about that. Our canine friend was patrolling the beach at the high tide line. I spotted the tracks intermittently up the beach starting around Marker 3, did not see them after Marker 7. There was an interesting collection of trash this morning. I picked up lots of goggles, a snorkel mask, sunglasses. and a number of those curly bracelets in a rainbow assortment of colors.
We found an interesting dead fish - Bill looked it up and it was identified as a Unicorn Leatherjacket. I personally have heard of this fish.
Here's some South Carolina Sea Turtle Nest counts for you as of 9:00 this morning - from seaturtle.org
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| Here comes the sun from the causeway |
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| Beautiful Sky |
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| This is a Unicorn Leatherjack, we first thought it was a Trigger Fish |
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| From Goggle |
Not much to report today. Morning was cloudy and drizzling. No sign of lightning. The weather on the island turned our to be much better than what the Doppler showed was headed our way.
Nest looked good. Sand appears to be building over the nest due to the wind.
Very little trash, except for the top of the beach. We brought back a bag full.
Spotted a live Banded Tulip Shell which we left on the beach:
The Monday team had a very windy walk and with the tide coming in, we had to walk more in the soft sand vs the wet packed sand. The wind was really wicked today, in fact it was a two plus hands day for trash pick-up. You would pick trash up but needed more than two hands to get the trash into your trash bag. No Sea Turtle activity and the Nest #1, looked good. We picked up lots of balloons today, beach toys, food wrappers, plastic bottles, and a few sunglasses.
The campers the Sunday team observed were gone, we could see lots of footprints, and tire tracks, but they picked up and looked like they took everything with them. Did not see any evidence of trash etc, where they camped but with the wind, it may have blown away. The Sunday Team had found these interesting red plastic "bullets". Today Sharon found a large number tucked away in the sand. Does anyone know what these are?
Sharon and I had our scissors with us, so we cut as much of the big plastic black tarp that was buries in sand the Hog Inlet area. We did get a lot of it, but there is still more. Walking back we noticed that someone started digging out the sailboat again.
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| Sunrise from the Causeway |
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| Here comes the sun |
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| Very windy today |
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| Only a chicken egg was found today |
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| At the jetty, looking behind the dunes |
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| The last dune on the island, much smaller than it used to be |
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| The Sailboat at Hogs Inlet, on Sunday |
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| The Sailboat on Monday |
It was a beautiful morning, cool and calm. Not much to report, especially after yesterday's excitement. A NEST this early in the season! AND a seal! Unheard of!!!
We checked our first nest. Everything was good. It was easy to imagine the eggs below the surface quietly laying in the sand, snug and secure.
We saw lots of birds on the lower end. It's been a long time since I've seen so many at one time.
The only other thing to report is the condition of the boat that was stranded a few years ago. As you can see by the picture below there isn't much that would tell you there was a whole boat below all that sand. One thing to make note of though, a little piece of metal poking up from the sand not far from the metal bar.
