We have one more record to break this year, 78 for July in 2023. With 3 nests today, 2 in zone 3 and 1 in zone 5LH we are on pace to do 74. One NNC in zone 3 and a couple of nests hatched. The pictures were taken by permitted volunteers under permit 2024-MTP537 & 2024 -MTP565, Following all rules and guidelines. Only permitted individuals are allowed to engage in sea turtle conservation activities.

Aloha Thursday Turtle tracks traffic Turtle track traffic coming and going everywhere. (A tongue twister turtle track traffic 😜) Today we welcomed nest 213 in Z2. We also had a NNC in Z2 and Z1. Several emergences on our early nests. Babies are crawling out and heading to their adventures in the big blue ocean. Swim baby turtles swim!!!!

Hears the relentless pre-dawn pellets of hard rain in a droughtage situation and thinks "Shoot! There go our tracks"! instead of "Hallelujah" Sure enough, between the tide ad rain there wasn't much to see in Zone 1 - which boasted 4 nests yesterday. However, 1 nest was found today, in Zone 3; along with 2 non-nesting crawls spotted in Zone 2 and 1 in Zone 3. As mentioned in the previous blog, there are benefits to turtle patroling which have little to do with the thurtles the

At end of June the forecast i developed would say 214 as the low (almost there), 270 is the expected or average, and 379 is the high side. We are almost to 214. 379 I don't think we will get to. 270 has an outside shot but need over 3 nests a day from here on out. With the 5 nests today, there is a shot at breaking the July nesting record, but I think slim. Need an average of 2.5 nests the rests of this month to do that. The running 4 day average and the average for July b