5th Nest for IOP

For the third day in a row the Isle of Palms has had a new loggerhead nest. Shelli Ciandella, Kim Mallos and Bill Evans were covering the area of 30th to 49th Avenues when Shelli was the first to discover tracks at a body pit in the lower part of the beach near the 40th Avenue access path, but it was laid where vehicles drive and below the spring tide line. Shelli was carrying her two week old baby, Sophie, in a sling and Kim had her young son, Cameron, helping her. The nest contained 122 eggs that were relocated to a good dune at 2802 Palm Blvd where a genetics sample was taken.