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

On a blustery Sunday morning with showers threatening offshore, Diane Troy and Paige Hauff found Nest #6 in Wild Dunes on the beach near the middle of the Ocean Point houses. The high wind made finding the egg chamber a real challenge because the important field signs had been blown away in the soft dry sand, and it was soft everywhere they probed. But Liz and Shawn came through and discovered 132 eggs in a precarious spot at the spring tide wrack line. These were taken out a

NEST #6 was found by Michael and Ashley Kirshtein at Station 29 while Cyndy Ewing was patrolling the other end of this section. It was a large clutch of 153 eggs that were first moved to Station 26. But when it was 48 days old with hatchlings almost ready to come out of the nest, we had to do an emergency relocation with permission from SCDNR because it was falling into the surf because Hurricane Erin was passing by. It was moved higher at that some location and turtles came