This is the Loggerhead false crawl #22 on 4 Mile also. She came up and made this body pit before going up to the dune and then went back to the water. Note you see the back flippers no sharp front flippers and also can see the swaying of when she pulled both flippers at one time. This is one and then the other.
My non beach day started early with two false crawls at 4 Mile Village , this is a green she came up as far as she could and then went back. Notice the track the ridge on each side of the middle, no swaying motion as she pulls both flippers at one time and the the long sharp front flippers on each side, this tracks measured 48 inches in all, a fine green but no nest.
Found this morning by Bobby, he also found Deer Lake false crawl #1 and Anne found our false crawl #19.. Ugh
On May 08,2010 An endangered Kemp’s Ridley sea turtle was seen by a Walton County Life Guard nesting in the Dune Allan area. We were called and marked this nest. At this time the Deep Water Horizon Oil disaster was ongoing. We marked the nest according to our sea turtle permit. As this oil disaster continued it was decided that all sea turtle nests on the Gulf Coast be dug up and hatched in coolers at the Kennedy Space Center. So at day 49 the eggs were dug up by a group of trained people and moved to Kennedy. This was the very first nest on the Gulf Coast moved. The eggs hatched and out of 67 eggs, 57 hatchlings came out. These endangered sea turtle hatchlings were released into the Atlantic Ocean. As the summer goes on we will continue to relocate our nests to this area. We are having a very big part in protecting the endangered sea turtles.
Nest #27 Seagrove again, a good learning time for the contractors on the beach…
Nest #25 was found by Alan Newsome, Alan found 3 nests today, yes, three, we were very busty, I had to walk and go to Seagrove. All nests were in seagove and we found the eggs. Hurrah….
Was found this morning by Kate Johnson. What a morning.
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