Year: 2010

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…

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…

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…

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…