posted: August 1, 2017, 1:46 PM
Well, another eventful week for the Turtle Patrol. The counts of nests, false crawls, eggs and hatchlings is constantly changing. We are up to 44 nests and 66 (minus 2) false crawls. Hmm you ask, how can we be minus 2 false crawls. Well 2 of our false crawls turned out to be nests. Our riders found turtle tracks in the morning where we didn’t know there were nests. You may ask how can this happen....the mamas really hid them well! In both cases we had teams out looking for these eggs, but didn’t find them. The morning riders keep an extra special eye out at some of these locations---when the mother turtle out smarts us! Well two false crawls (now nests) boiled this past week. One was closed last night---they found shells from 155 hatchlings!
