MAY 2017 More strandings

Stranding continued into May.    On May 9th a large sea turtle was reported rolling in the surf around 33rd Ave S, Windy Hill.   Beach Patrol pulled the turtle out of the surf.  NMB STP was called to process the stranding.

Large turtle, may have been a young adult so keratin sample was taken for DNA. No known cause of death, turtle very decomposed.

Last May Stranding was another dead Loggerhead.   This one at near the end of May, May 25th.  Found by NMB STP Volunteer, Charles and his daughter as they were walking around the large sandbar at the extreme northern end of Cherry Grove.  But by the time the turtle was found and the stranding line was called, a large thunderstorm was fast rolling in.  Measurements were quickly taken as NMB Beach Patrol watched from a distance, concerned for our safety.  Two of us drag this 50-pound juvenile turtle back to the beach and asked Beach PAtrol to dispose of it as we ran off the beach.  Two of us spent about an hour in the staircase of the nearest condo complex, listening and watching as the storm pummeled the beach.