June 1st, the magic month, Tropical storm Bonnie has been stalled over the southern part of SC since Saturday. Rainy night with high tides around 4:30AM. Larry is walking up the narrow beach when he sees an unusual disturbance in the dunes, running perpendicular to the the beach.
He investigates what looks like a faint track and sees the tell take V of the claw on a turtles flipper.
He follows the faint track up into the dunes where it veers off to the south. On top of a low dune, he sees messed up sand and what looks like a faint body pit.
Area is probed and a nest cavity is found. Eggs are quickly uncovered.
One egg taken for DNA, eggs quickly covered, nest is marked and protected.
They are beautiful creatures. You have a lovely blog.
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