Season has begun
posted: May 13, 2025, 4:48 PM
Our early morning riders have been out patrolling all 8 miles of the Holden Beach waterfront...looking for evidence of a mother turtle.
We've had two "false crawls" so far. This means the mother turtles have come ashore, but for some reason they did not dig a nest. They went back into the water without laying eggs. Teams went out those mornings and dug looking for eggs and couldn't find any. In 60 days we'll keep an eye on these areas to see if she really did lay eggs and did such a good job of hiding the eggs we couldn't find them.
Maybe tomorrow we'll have better success.
Our first nest could be any day now. Past first days were last year (2024) May 18. In 2023 the first nest was laid on May 12 and in 2022 it was May 21.
You can check out our first nest histories in the historical data section of this website.
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