NMB SEA TURTLE NEST #10 JUNE 15 TH

 A very exciting morning for all of  NMB STP Wednesday volunteers  out looking for a potential crawl or body pit. (Sea Turtle Nest)

When NMB STP Volunteers Susan, Kyle and Richard are looking down the beach, they saw tire tracks from where sanitation had turned around, but also to their excitement, they saw a crawl,  right beside the tire tracks, Coming up to the high tide line from the ocean. As they get closer they look up towards the dunes, they walk besides the crawl being careful not to disturb the tracks to find where she had nested, a nice body pit (nest) and the crawl going back to the ocean, to her happy place!  Shortly after more volunteers came to help.

 MANY NMB STP VOLUNTEERS HAVE COME TO HELP, ALL TALKING WITH AND SHARING THIER PASSION AND KNOWLEGE WITH THE CURIOUS BEACH WALKERS OUT WALKING THIS BEATIFUL MORNING

LOOKING AT THE TRACKS, AS THIS WILL GIVE A STARTING POINT TO

 PROBE TO SEE IF EGGS ARE THERE

PROBING IS DONE, CHUCK IS CAREFULLY LOOKING FOR EGGS

AND YES, WE HAVE A NEST!!!!!!

AS THIS IS AN UNSAFE PART OF THE BEACH, MANY LIGHTS AND HIGH TRAFFIC

AREA THE NEST IS RELOCATED TO A SAFER SECTION OF THE BEACH.

126 EGGS

DON, KIM AND APRIL PUTTING A THE CAGE AROUND THE NEST TO

 PROTECT THIS NEST FROM PREDATORS SHARING THE BEACH WITH US.

NEST NUMBER 10

SO MANY THANKS TO EVERY VOLUNTEER.  THANK YOU ALL FOR MAKING THE DIFFERENCE IN THIS ENDANGERED SEA TURTLE SPECIES.

ALL SEA TURTLES ARE ENDANGERED.  THEY ARE FEDERALLY AND STATE PROTECTED,

SPECIAL TRAINING AND PERMITS ARE REQUIRED TO WORK WITH NESTING MOTHERS, NEST, EGGS AND STRANDED SEA TURTLES.

If in NMB or Briarcliffe areas and you see a nesting mother or stranding

Please call the NMB STP Hotline

843-213-9074

Anytime Day or Night