Island Turtle Team - Isle of Palms - Sullivan's Island

SI Nest #6: The loggerheads on Sullivan's Island really had trouble finding spots to nest during the night. One crawled up above the tide line into the vehicular access path at Station 16 Street and laid her eggs right where the SIPD and SI Fire & Rescue drive on most days to get on the beach. Someone called about this nest well after dark, so the firemen and police waited for us to move them from the path. Laurie and Bob Snyder were covering the southwest end of SI and woul

Nest #19 for IOP was found on June 27 in the 9 th Avenue vehicular Access path, which is also in the Corps of Engineers sand project area, by Tay Thompson, Susan Chagrin and Jennifer Martin. Also along were Susan's friends from Summerville, Laura Glover and her 11 year old son Daniel, who aspires to be a marine biologist or a professional soccer player. Two of the 101 eggs that were laid were found broken in the egg chamber. The eggs incubated for 49 days before hatchlings c