I got a call from a family at Seaside last night about baby sea turtles and after another call and talking to Joe, this family saw the adult sea turtle come up on the beach to lay eggs, so they wanted to see her good so they and other shone their bright flash lights on her. Guess what she went back into the water, surprise, surprise, how many times do we have to tell people to not shines lights on turtles. Ugh, this was Seaside are they not suppose to be environmental, where is the education. Joe said when I called him and he went down there were people, with flashlights all over, some even had strobe lights. PLEASE PEOPLE NOT FLASHLIGHTS ON THE BEACH, USE ONLY RED LED LIGHT OMITTING LIGHTS.
Oh, by the way the women I talked to though the turtle came up to have her babies, this was about 9 p.m.
Sandestin of course. Found this morning, a small Loggerhead with a small crawl, we have seen her before. She did not come far out of the water to nest. Note the tracks, and they say Loggerhead, alternating, small no tail drag, no front flippers, can see all of the back flippers. Had to really work hard to keep the day cleaners off the beach, told them to stop at Sandestin and they did, and boy do they drive fast, hopefully after phones call they will stop nest time and go slower. Also had to fight the vendors, what fun. As always Sandestin has a nest. Next picture will be of the nest.
This is a loggerhead nest, not much to it correct. But it is a nest, she came in with her track on the right, she how she then covered up part of that track with thrown sand, they she went out to the left. Not a lot of thrown sand but loggerheads do not always thrown a lot of sand, Greens do…You who walk at night please know the difference between the two and never, I mean never follow a sea turtle up the beach.
Found by Bobby Stuart the nest King east of Deer Lake State Park, Loggerhead. We also now have 14 false crawls
Not how after she nested she could not find the water because of the lights and went up and down and all over.
Bobby found a loggerhead nest on Deer Lake State Park this morning, her and Joe marked it.
A false crawl #13 was found by Oyster Lake, a green this is the second night she has tried to nest, let’s hope she does tonight.
Well, Buzz has been walking for us for many happy years and here he is with him nest.
NE wind blowing, hard packed sand, beautiful beaches and water, what more could you ask for, well Nest #19 found by Bobby Stuart in Water Sound. Hurrah
Was found this morning by Johndra and marked by Sondra and Dawn, just east of the Retreat. As you can see poor Mom turtle came up through a tent, bumped into a pole where she nested to low and west out just missing another tent. Why oh why can’t people put up their stuff at night.
Even with the rain the ruts are awful. She came up to the left of the picture, body pitted and started to nest then tried to get to the top of the dune, almost made it, slid back down came almost to the water and nested, the eggs were just to the left of the flag.
Once again please don’t walk without your flags.
