Well, finally, we were lucky enough to at least have some activity today. The morning started off with just three of us, one went the short end 2 went to the long end. Finally some action for the Saturday crew.... a crawl. To say I was jumping up and down would be an exaggeration, but I was very excited. (I did contain myself). Finally a crawl!! We went to check it out and it had looked like she might’ve nested, but we continued on with our walk to make sure there wasn’t anything else up ahead. We called to let Leslie know and she came down to join us and observe. Thank you for that Leslie.
We did run into some tracks which looked like possible coyote, but not sure.
It became very windy by the time we got back to the crawl. Some of the tracks had already been covered up from the wind. We probed and probed and did not find any soft sand or body pit, so we made the determination she came up and didn’t like the location. It looked like an In-N-Out situation because the tracks were somewhat equal coming in and going out at high tide. We called it false crawl #9.
The measurements of the crawl were 31 inches wide and in some spots it looked like she had something attached to her belly as there was a dragging long line in certain areas of her crawl where her belly would be. Leslie said it could possibly be her mouth or beak drawing that line. Anyway, that’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Hopefully tomorrow we will see an actual nest for the Sunday crew. Good luck! Hope everyone has a great day.
All in all it was a very pleasant morning, warm but a good breeze
All sea turtle monitoring by Waties Island Sea Turtle Patrol is permitted and authorized by SCDNR under Permit MTP 500.
Text and pictures by Jackie and Cherie
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