One of the temperature data loggers buried 12 inches in the ground on the outside of the cage of nest 69 ,we can download data from it while it's in the ground. Attached is a graph of the of temps recorded since 9/12 to 10/17. (From Michelle Pate , SC Sea Turtle Coordinator) First some biology about nest environment, egg development and incubation. The short version. A clutch of eggs can be vulnerable to extremes in environmental changes within the nest chamber during incuba

The beauty of nature. Inventoried nest #68 this morning and found four baby turtles alive but unable to get out of the nest. We freed them and set them down on the beach so they could make their way to the ocean. When they got to the ocean they were still cold shocked and unable to make headway so Buddy Lawrence, the license holder for Hunting Island Turtle Conservation gathered them up and will be warming them for release later. The pictures were taken by permitted volunteer

Dunes in front of rustic tent area Those posts mark where the dune was only few days ago Dune in front campground where nests 6 and 61...

first graph - total nests for each year with a 5 yr running average.  The low nesting years keep getting higher.  Next year should be a...

Earlier the start of the season the longer the season Start of nesting trendy earlier

There was no activity on the beach today. There are 69 nests - and 17 remaining nests waiting to hatch. It was a cool breezy morning.....

No new crawls or nest. Nest #62 hatched last night with 116 eggs relocated and the best estimate is that there was about 90 tracks. ...

Courtesy of our Data Czar Keith A spray

Sunrise on Hunting Island Beach The mornings are getting cooler, but the views remain the same. The surprise nest on Friday keeps us at a...

When mama laid nest #68 two weeks ago with 146 eggs we thought she might be back and I guess we were right. 4 crawls this morning in...

July numbers this year were terrible. Lowest, quantity and % wise, over the last 13 years We had a relatively strong May but it fell off...

Checking the beach, some erosion, some nests had been washed over, but was lucky on this beautiful, cool, breezy morning! All sea turtle...

Hurricane Erin is off the coast - some waves and a beautiful sunrise There was no activity on the beach today. Nest count remains at 68...

Evdently mama turtles did not get the email about the end of the nesting season. #68 showed up in Zone 3 this morning. 146 eggs, 145...

Volunteers had a beautiful sunrise this morning! There was no activity on the beach today ~ The nesting season has been “called”… this...

Look at this beautiful picture of sunrise on the beach this morning ! Photo credit goes to our Boss on the Beach - Buddy ! Nest count...

No activity, no new nests, no hatchings, no inventories - nothing new here.

Zone 1 Sunrise Nest 67 located in Z4/N5 2 NNE Z4 Inventoried Nest 14 in Z2. Great hatch rate, great job Stacie and team.

The beach was hot with no wind today. Turtles continue their cycle of nest and hatch. Nest #66 was located today. The hatching continues...

Nest #64 was located today in zone 3 and left in situ... Nest #64 Weather conditions were breezey with a pretty partial sunrise. ...