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

After several days of torrential rain, many of the beach paths were flooded and a loud chorus of frogs was heard on the way out to the nests. Nest 20 was laid at 8 th Avenue on June 29 and found by Susan Lipsey and Elizabeth Rast. It was moved out of the renourishment project area to 30 th Avenue, There were 95 eggs in the nest, and it incubated for 53 days before turtles came out. At today's inventory we found 95 empty eggshells, 26 undeveloped eggs, eight dead hatchlings