Today’s patrol was brought to you by Mother Nature…who apparently forgot to check our schedule! 🤣 About 45 minutes into patrol, the first thunderstorm rolled in with lightning, so we all made a quick retreat and hunkered down. Once the coast was clear, we made a mad dash back to the beach to finish patrol before Round 2 of the storm arrived. Even Momma Turtle was trying to beat the weather! She successfully left us Nest #229 No other nesting or hatching activity was observe

Today there is only one piece of information to report for the Turtle Patrol.. We had one non-nesting crawl in zone one.But don’t you worry, because soon we’re going to be seeing numbers much greater than one. On Hunting Island Beach alone we have 228 loggerhead nests with roughly 100 eggs in each getting ready to hatch. I wonder what song we’ll be singing then?

Beautiful sunrise greeted us this morning. No new crawls this morning, even the pelicans seem to be laidback. One nest in zone 1 had what appeared to be a start of a boil with one baby turtle about two inches deep and no tracks but ghost crabs standing by so we covered the nest with more sand and hopefully they will boil later tonight. Inventorying nest #50. Sometimes you just have to get down and dirty.