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3-July-2012 Nest #14 in Nags Head

With a nearly full moon illuminating the sky, a gentle ocean breeze, and calm rolling waves, it was a perfect night to sit on the beach, both for our beach goers and our nesting loggerhead!  At around 1:30 AM a group on the beach were watching the waves lap the shore...

2-July-2012 Nest#13 Kill Devil Hills

Three weeks ago we had a very confusing turtle visit our beach and decided that the odd crawl pattern likely indicated a turtle (probably a loggerhead) with an impaired flipper (see back story here).  This has not stopped her from being successful as she laid eggs in...

1-July-2012 Nest#12 Nags Head

Even the evening thundershowers couldn’t keep our turtles away.  Jerry was riding in south Nags Head when he came across a rather short crawl that ended just shy of the high tide line.  “Could it be another false crawl?  Wait… I think there’s a...