Year: 2009

Nest #24 was found by Mark in front of Beach Crest condo’s in Seagrove 7/13/09.  A loggerhead left in place beautiful nest… UPDATE!! A real heart breaker.  With all the rain and high water, not really sure what happened but when Joe and Bobby dug into the nest they found 72 hatchlings about 4 inches…

Charlie is still on a roll, finding nest 23 in front of Charlie Hilton’s house…… We did find a place to move it as it was only 25 feet from the surf.  132 eggs! Notice the nice rainbow in the background of Charlie’s photo! UPDATE!! Nest #23 escaped 124 Alive and released 4 Dead in…

False Crawl #13 was found on 7/05/09 just west of Pompano Joes in the West end by Pam.  See the in and back out of tracks and you can see where to put the flags.

Nest #22 was found by Bobby, who is trying now to beat Charlie, Loggerhead,7/06/09 in front of Walton Dunes, this nest was just above the incoming tide and was moved straight back. Note in the picture of the unmarked nest the area just to the left of outgoing track.  The mound of fluffy sand eggs…

This was found at 4 Mile 7/04/09 in front of Jerry Jones House, some kind of a turtle but has claws.  You in the know is it a fresh water turtle.  Came from the Gulf, but lots of Dune Lakes in this area.

I found a nest, I found a nest, hurrah, happy 4th, after dropping off two others to get the west end walked and getting on the beach just past 5:50 walking past the refuge looking camp, Camping on the Gulf, past Sandestin with their 3 rows a mile long of chairs, chairs up at Topsail…

Nest 20 a loggerhead, was found in Seagrove by the Villas by Carol, 7/03/09 to close to water and as you can see with the tracks and high tide yet to come, and moved by Joe.  Hurrah, love those sea turtles! UPDATE!! Nest #20 hatched 9/3/09 at 62 days 99 escaped 9 no obvious 108…

Nest #19 a loggerhead was found by Bobby Stuart in Watersound left in place and marked by Bobby. Notice the incoming track is much lighter than the outgoing, I think it rained while she was nesting. UPDATE!! Joe had to dig this awful nest that was washed over and more importantly up into last night.…

Nest #18 Loggerhead found by Bobby 7/01/09 WaterSound left in place and marked by Bobby and Joe. UPDATE!! This nest was 68 feet from the water but got water over it in  T. S. Claudette and when the water goes over our nests it also come up through the bottom and stays.  This kills the…

False Crawl #11 was found by Johndra on Blue Mountain Beach 6/29/09 a loggerhead see the picture it looks as if she really did start to nest, but they found no eggs and no much thrown sand and out she went.