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Final Turtle Count for 2022 Season - Nests: 351 False Crawls: 236
2023 - stay tuned.

  We’ve been BUSY!

5/17/2016

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Hilary, our intern, had her first patrol on Sunday. Unfortunately there was no turtle activity but on Monday we had our share of turtle work!
 
On Monday morning we encountered three false crawls and two turtle nests. The two nests were no textbook turtle nests either. Both of the sea turtles laid their eggs and then proceeded to crawl over the body pit, hiding the location of the eggs. After a lot of searching, Hilary found the eggs for nest #02 and I found the eggs for nest #03. These turtles did a great job of pulling themselves up the steep escarpment to find a safe area to nest so no relocation was necessary.
 
Today we had another busy morning. We came across a false crawl and two nests. We had better luck in quickly locating the eggs! This brings our nest count to five.
 
We are looking forward to what the rest of the week has in store.
 
Our other intern, Nicole Lynch, will be arriving tomorrow! 
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Gerald Schwartzentruber link
6/9/2016 06:27:00 pm

Hi Leah, Your email address didn,t work for me so now I just say hello, hoping you are fine. We love you and pray for you,
Please update us sometime. Hoping to see you when your niece arrives. Are you enjoying helping other people learn about turtles? -I bet you are.

Love,Grandma and Grandpa S

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Minnesota Electric Blinds link
1/14/2023 09:39:19 am

Looved reading this thank you

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    Leah Schwartzentruber

    Sea Turtle Specialist 
    Edisto Beach State Park
    8377 State Cabin Road
    Edisto Island, SC, 29438

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