If you visit a sea turtle nesting beach, it is important to follow the tips in the video below, to ensure sea turtles stay safe. You can do your part to help sea turtles!

We are now up to 24 nests and 14 false crawls at Edisto Beach State Park and 237 nests in the entire state of South Carolina. The turtle activity has really picked up the last couple of days with 6 nests and 1 false crawl documented yesterday and 4 nests and 2 false crawls today. The busiest nesting month is June so we should be seeing more and more activity in the days to come.

Every morning we are out on the beach, documenting the new sea turtle activity. If you see us out on the beach at sunrise, be sure to say hi! We love talking with and educating our beach goers on all we do to help protect the sea turtles.

I created a video on the first nest found this season, check it out below!

The first nest at Edisto Beach State Park was documented on May 9th. It was situated right in front of one of the beach day-use accesses. The nest was high enough that it did not require a relocation. One egg was taken for the genetics project and the rest remain down below to incubate for the next 45-60 days. We are looking forward to finding many more nests as we continue into the season!

Since May has arrived, we have started to monitor our beach every morning for new turtle activity. It has been a chilly start but we have been gifted beautiful sunrises! The first two nests in the state were documented on May 2nd at Cape Island and Tom Yawkey Wildlife Management Area.

We could be finding our first crawl any day now, so stay tuned!