A Nest on Each Island Today

Linda Rumph and Phyllis Nathanson discovered Nest #2 for Sullivan's Island today near the Dangerous Currents sign at Fort Moultrie. We suspect that this is the same loggerhead who crawled up not far from there yesterday near the Sand Dunes Club, bumped into the dead trees in the intertidal zone, and went back to the water without laying her eggs - not a good spot. She can postpone laying them for about a week if necessary. The track size matched exactly. But this time she left 87 eggs in the sand below the spring tide line. The eggs were carefully relocated to a safe dune at the Station 19 path and a genetics sample was taken for the DNA research study at the University of Georgia.

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Meanwhile on the Isle of Palms, Deborah Johnson, Debbie Mann, Linda Conrad, and Paula Mead discovered Nest #11 at 52nd Avenue on the Isle of Palms. This one contained 120 eggs. This area is likely going to be affected soon by the upcoming renourishment sand pumping project. So the eggs were relocated to a spot near 29th Avenue for incubation.