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Final Turtle Count for 2022 Season - Nests: 351 False Crawls: 236
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Night Walk 7/12/18 - Hatchlings and More Hatchlings!

7/13/2018

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We had a successful night walk for seeing hatchlings! I checked on nest 4, that had hatched the night before. Sometimes there are straggler hatchlings that come out the following night and sure enough there were 10 hatchlings that crawled out of the sand and to the ocean. We were already off to a great start! On our way to the inlet we saw a false crawl tracks but no sea turtle. At the very end of the inlet I saw a nest (marked as #87)! The turtle had already finished nesting though and made her way back to the ocean. On our way back we checked the possible nests that could hatch, one more time. At nest 2 there were many little hatchling heads emerging from the sand! We timed it perfectly to watch nest 2 "boil" and crawl to the ocean. It was such a great night walk! The following morning, Jill, Nona and Linda found two nests and two false crawls. The only nest to hatch last night was nest 2. See below for pictures from morning patrol! If you would like to adopt either of the two new nests, click on the button below to be taken to the adoption page. The Unique ID's for nests #86 and #87 are: 230829 & 230833. The proceeds from the nest adoption help to support our EBSP turtle patrol program.
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Turtle Lover
8/1/2018 05:12:00 pm

This is the night walk I went on. I adopted nest 87 because I felt bad that the babies might have to crawl over shells. The night walk was awesome and I absolutely loved the turtles!

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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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