Night Walk 7/4 - Only Turtle Tracks

On the Tuesday night walk, the storms had passed early on, allowing us to continue with the program. We walked to the inlet without a turtle sighting but we did get a view of the distant fireworks off of Seabrook Island. We did come across some turtle tracks on our walk but the turtle had already went back to the ocean. This turtle had attempted to dig an egg chamber twice before deciding to try another location.

On the way back to the WIFI room, we came across another set of turtle tracks. This turtle had also returned to the ocean but this one had successfully nested! She must have just come ashore shortly after we walked on by. You just never know when or where the turtles will decide to nest.

The following morning we documented 1 nest and 9 false crawls, bringing our tally to 190 nests. See below for a few pictures taken from the dawn patrol.